Python indentation (3 spaces)

Mon Oct 15 12:06:04 EDT 2018

On 15/10/18 16:41, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Rhodri James <rhodri at kynesim.co.uk>:
>>> On 15/10/18 12:28, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> Try running
>>>>>> emacs -q abc.c
>>>>>> and observe the indentation depth.
>>>> """User Option: c-basic-offset
>>>> This style variable holds the basic offset between indentation
>> levels. It's factory default is 4, but all the built-in styles set it
>> themselves, to some value between 2 (for gnu style) and 8 (for bsd,
>> linux, and python styles)."""
>> To realize why 2 is the factory default despite the above statement, we
> observe that the factory setting of c-default-style specifies "gnu" for
> C-like files other than Java and awk.

In other words, only for some C styles. As I said.
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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd