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Re: Temporarily changing number of spaces in indentation
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Vineet Naik |
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Re: Temporarily changing number of spaces in indentation |
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Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:07:01 +0530 |
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 4, 12:45 am, Vineet Naik <naik...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> I usually use 4 spaces (indent-tabs-mode set to nil) to indent php code.
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>> I have the following line in .emacs file which I guess sets this behaviour
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>> (setq c-basic-offset 4)
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>> I am now temporarily working on some code which uses 8 spaces instead of 4.
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>> So I tried evaluating (setq c-basic-offset 8) in scratch buffer. I see
>> 8 in the mini buffer but it still indents 4 spaces.
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> you probably want to eval that in your current buffer. Not scratch.
> Because, am guessing it's a buffer-local var.
It worked. Thanks.
Vineet