David Faure wrote: > > Now, the idea: we need a LISP guru to adapt Arnt's .emacs so that it > > automatically determines and sets the appropriate indenting count for a > > file at opening. > This is impossible [...] > > OTOH, a first line that sets the variable could do it > (like I've seen for vi). But I don't know the syntax for emacs. Anybody ? // -*- mode: c++; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- Ciao, Daniel.