Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk>: > On 15/10/18 12:28, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Try running >> >> emacs -q abc.c >> >> and observe the indentation depth. > > """User Option: c-basic-offset > > This style variable holds the basic offset between indentation > levels. It's factory default is 4, but all the built-in styles set it > themselves, to some value between 2 (for gnu style) and 8 (for bsd, > linux, and python styles)."""
To realize why 2 is the factory default despite the above statement, we observe that the factory setting of c-default-style specifies "gnu" for C-like files other than Java and awk. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
