You can set different default C styles (I use strousoup, for example instead
of BSD style)

in .emacs

(setq c-default-style "bsd"
      c-basic-offset 4)

and that will set it every time.

http://borkware.com/quickies/one?topic=emacs

Jai



On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Kid Programmer <ned.sanger@gmail.com>wrote:

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> Hi!  I've recently switched from GVim to Emacs, and at the moment I only
> have
> one qualm.  When I'm writing C code Emacs autoindents by two spaces, when
> the normal is usually four.  How can I increase it to four?  Thank you!
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