Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] "consistent" indentation and tabstop=8

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Meier wrote:
> Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Why there's tabstop=8, but file is indented with 2 spaces?
> > How should <tab> key works in these files?
> >
> > If you want to mark that \t in files are bad, let at least set
> > softtabstop=2 to make using <tab> sane.
>
> Without starting any new discussion, my only intent is that any tabs in 
> a Wireshark source file are always displayed as going to a column 
> position of 9, 17, ... (where the left-most column is numbered as 1).

Thanks for doing that, by the way.  I wanted to do it myself but was 
afraid of starting a war. ;-)

(Until someone tells me how to tell all the terminal programs that I use 
that tabs don't occupy the same room as 8 spaces--so that things like 
'cat' and 'less' show the same indenting as <insert your editor here>--I 
will be a fervent believer that tab characters should move the cursor 8 
spaces.)