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Re: tab-width ignored in .dir-locals.el
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Grant Edwards |
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Re: tab-width ignored in .dir-locals.el |
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Date: |
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 18:15:32 -0000 (UTC) |
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On 2021-11-12, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you set the tab width for C-mode in a .dir-locals.el file?
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> All the documentation I can find says this should work:
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ((nil . ((indent-tabs-mode . t)
> (tab-width . 4)
> ))
> (c-mode . ((c-file-style . "BSD")
> (subdirs . t)
> ))
> )
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> But when I edit a .c file, the tab width is always 8.
Aargh. I just realized it's not tab size that's wrong, it's the
c-file-offsets...