* Frank Terbeck wrote in grml's BTS on 20131110 / 17:42:
> Thilo Six wrote:
> > PS. now i figured why my patches are so bad intended.

> > This vim modeline:
> > # vim:foldmethod=marker tw=80 ai expandtab shiftwidth=2 tabstop=2

> > should really be:
> > # vim:foldmethod=marker tw=80 ai expandtab shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2

> > The value of &tabstop should allways be 8.

> Fun. Since I switched my main editor to emacs I don't get thrown off by
> that anymore - obviously. :)

> ‘tabstop = 2’ does sound wrong indeed. Mika?

Yes, no idea why I chose this bad default, sorry.
I've just fixed that
[https://github.com/grml/grml-etc-core/commit/4bbd12cabf9c09c9070b1d5f3eca4b11b70b7bba].

Thanks for raising that!

regards,
-mika-