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From: nick@esacs.UUCP (Nick Tsivranidis)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.vms,gnu.emacs.gnews
Subject: How do I set the tab-width in emacs?
Keywords: GNU, emacs, lisp, tab
Message-ID: <1216@esacs.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 90 13:46:37 GMT
Organization: ESA C. & S. , Rimini,ITALY
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	I would like to set the tab-width in c-mode (or all
modes) to 4. There is a variable (tab-width) which will do
what I want, but I can't get this to work from my .emacs
file. I tried something like:
	(setq tab-width 4)
I am using GNU emacs, if it makes a difference. 

	Along the same lines, is there any on-line info on all the
user settable variables of emacs (i.e. things I can set in my .emacs).
My method so far has been to go in the lisp/ directory and grep around
for words that are similar to what I want, but as you can tell, it is
not always a good one!

						- nick -

P.S. Is there a gnu.emacs newsgroup? In my .newsrc there are a few
     gnu.emacs.* but no gnu.emacs.