C basic indentation

This seems a question for the ESS-help list.

But you should be using Emacs customization these days: I have in my .emacs

 '(c-basic-offset 4)
 '(c-default-style "bsd")

in custom-set-variables, and that is what the 'R Internals' manual says 
for Emacs >= 21.  (You can set that from the 'Customize Emacs' menu 
item, Programming, Languages, C group.)


On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, G?ran Brostr?m wrote:

I use the recommendations in "R coding standards", i.e., I put

Those are recommendations for Emacs < 21.

    ;;; C
    (add-hook 'c-mode-hook
              (lambda () (c-set-style "bsd")))
    ;;; ESS
    (add-hook 'ess-mode-hook
              (lambda ()
                (ess-set-style 'C++ 'quiet)
                (add-hook 'local-write-file-hooks
                          (lambda ()
                            (ess-nuke-trailing-whitespace)))))
    (setq ess-nuke-trailing-whitespace-p 'ask)
    ;;; Perl
    (add-hook 'perl-mode-hook
              (lambda () (setq perl-indent-level 4)))

into my .emacs file. IIRC, back in 2005 it gave me a basic indentation 
of 4 in C (good), but only 2 in R (not so good, but I fixed it with 
the aid of this excellent list). But now it gives me a basic 
indentation of eight (8!) in C code. This is not what I want. I think 
I saw somewhere that the bsd standard actually has changed from four 
to eight recently (but I cannot find it now).

Two points given that the standard really has changed: (i) The text in 
"R coding standards" should be changed accordingly.

It has been (long ago):

  Alternatively, (for @acronym{GNU} Emacs 21 or later),
  use customization to set the @code{c-default-style} to @code{"bsd"}
  and @code{c-basic-offset} to @code{4}.)

(ii) How do I get back to a basic indentation of 4 in C and R code?

Follow the above.