Re: modelines

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

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 'cat') that the
> > file in question is using an alternative tabstop. (Or until I'm blue in
> > the face or dead or whatever ;-).)
>
> +5 !

+10^(10^100)

The UNIX tty driver, the default tab settings you get from e.g. tset, and the default tab settings in most if not all 
UN*X terminal emulators do 8-space tabs.  (Xcode didn't get the memo, which is why

        http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/autofs/autofs-207/autofs.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

has a bunch of entries that say "indentWidth = 8".)
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