Re: Setting c-basic-offset equal to tab-width

[Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>]

> Is there a way of setting c-basic-offset to be identical to tab-width,
> so that whenever the latter is changed, the former changes too?

With Emacs from CVS, you could use `defvaralias' to accomplish this:

,----[ C-h f defvaralias RET ]
| defvaralias is a built-in function in `C source code'.
| (defvaralias NEW-ALIAS BASE-VARIABLE &optional DOCSTRING)
| 
| Make NEW-ALIAS a variable alias for symbol BASE-VARIABLE.
| Setting the value of NEW-ALIAS will subsequently set the value of BASE-VARIABLE,
|  and getting the value of NEW-ALIAS will return the value BASE-VARIABLE has.
| Third arg DOCSTRING, if non-nil, is documentation for NEW-ALIAS.  If it is
|  omitted or nil, NEW-ALIAS gets the documentation string of BASE-VARIABLE,
|  or of the variable at the end of the chain of aliases, if BASE-VARIABLE is
|  itself an alias.
| The return value is BASE-VARIABLE.
| 
| [back]
`----

So something like the following would do this (on CVS Emacs):

(defvaralias 'c-basic-offset 'tab-width)


HTH.
Ted

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Edward O'Connor
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