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On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, exits funnel wrote:

> The default indentation is four spaces.  I'd desparately like to change
> it to two.

Funny, i thought it was 8, which is why I have a command to change it to 4.
But I digress.

I have it set from M-x customize, so I'm not entirely sure how to set it
directly in your .emacs; you can, however, do the following:

M-x customize-variable RET tab-width RET

and set it how you like.  The result looks something like:

(custom-set-variables '(tab-width 4))

> Learning LIST is on my todo list

I believe you mean LISP :)
(which does, in fact, stand for LISt Processor, but that's a few inches to
one side of the point. . .)

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