On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 01:51:05AM +, Chris Maynard wrote:
however, I am wondering if 8 is simply used more than 4 because that's
what the Wireshark modeline generation tool happens to default to,
I believe the GNU standard is for an 8 space tabstop, but now I can't
find a reference to
Stephen Fisher wrote:
Can modelines be at the top of a file?
Yes, for vim (and I assume others). That's where I usually put them.
The boiler plate copyright notice from doc/README.developer might be a good
place to put it.
I think that's a good approach. It may also be useful to think
Chris Maynard wrote:
Stephen Fisher steve@... writes:
Since I started coding for Wireshark in 2006, the convention wisdom (as
I understood it) has always been to stick with the formatting method
that the file already has, whatever that may be.
Right, but what if there's a file already
On 9/28/2011 4:57 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
I'll argue that *tab*stops should be 8 until someone shows me how to
tell all the various terminal programs I end up using that the file I'm
currently looking at (in 'less' or 'grep' or plain old 'cat') that the
file in question is using an alternative
On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Bill Meier wrote:
On 9/28/2011 4:57 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
I'll argue that *tab*stops should be 8 until someone shows me how to
tell all the various terminal programs I end up using that the file I'm
currently looking at (in 'less' or 'grep' or plain old
Guy Harris guy@... writes:
On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Bill Meier wrote:
On 9/28/2011 4:57 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
I'll argue that *tab*stops should be 8 until someone shows me how to
tell all the various terminal programs I end up using that the file I'm
currently looking at (in
On Sep 28, 2011, at 6:14 PM, Chris Maynard wrote:
Gerald has a table of official coding standards posted at
http://www.wireshark.org/tools/modelines.html, and it looks like in the
Microsoft world, 4 is the standard.
...but I think it can be changed to the UN*X standard in a global setting
A couple of questions/thoughts on modelines[1]:
1) Should emacs (and other) modelines be added to the generated modelines at
[1], e.g., setq as mentioned by Zawinski[2]?
2) In the absence of any other user preference, what is the Wireshark
recommendation on modeline settings, if any? The
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:57:15PM +, Chris Maynard wrote:
2) In the absence of any other user preference, what is the Wireshark
recommendation on modeline settings, if any? The following seems to
be the default settings generated at [1], so am I right to assume that
would be the
Stephen Fisher steve@... writes:
Since I started coding for Wireshark in 2006, the convention wisdom (as
I understood it) has always been to stick with the formatting method
that the file already has, whatever that may be.
Right, but what if there's a file already consistently using tabs
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