indent levels

[Liaw, Andy]

Found the answer:

(setq c-default-style "stroustrup")

or interactively: c-c .

Best,
Andy

> From: Liaw, Andy
> 
> Dear ESS-help,
> 
> Apologies for such an off-topic question:  The `Writing R 
> Extensions' manual
> has a snippet of elisp code that defines the indentation 
> style for R code.
> Can anyone tell me how to get C code to be indented similarly 
> in (X)Emacs?
> In particular, how do I get XEmacs to use four spaces for indentation,
> intead of the default of two spaces?  I tried:
> 
> (add-hook 'C-mode-hook
>           (lambda () 
> 	    (C-set-style 'C++)
>             ;; Because
>             ;;                                 DEF GNU BSD K&R C++
>             ;; C-indent-level                  2   2   8   5   4
>             ;; C-continued-statement-offset    2   2   8   5   4
>             ;; C-brace-offset                  0   0  -8  -5  -4
>             ;; C-arg-function-offset           2   4   0   0   0
>             ;; C-expression-offset             4   2   8   5   4
>             ;; C-else-offset                   0   0   0   0   0
>             ;; C-close-brace-offset            0   0   0   0   0
>             (add-hook 'local-write-file-hooks
>                       (lambda ()
>                         (nuke-trailing-whitespace)))))
> 
> but when I load a .c file, XEmacs complained about unknown 
> style "C++".
> 
> I'd very much appreciate any pointer.
> 
> Best,
> Andy
> 
> Andy Liaw, PhD
> Biometrics Research      PO Box 2000, RY33-300     
> Merck Research Labs           Rahway, NJ 07065
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