On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Why does indention of the new code use 4 spaces, not 2?
>>>
>>
>> No idea.  The .dir-locals.el is in effect.  I checked several buffer
>> locals to ensure that was true.  What should I look at to help analyze
>> this?  I suspect others will have this issue as well when helping with C
>> code.
>>
>
> My default c-basic-offset is 4.  .dir-locals.el is silent on that, so I
> get mine rather than yours.  Would you like me to update .dir.locals.el?  I
> will put a locals-2 with the correction, at least that will get me started.
>

It seems the "gnu" style says c-basic-offset 2 but I guess cc-mode will not
override an explicit option setting?