On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:49:14 -0500 Phillip Susi wrote:

> Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> > Looks like you're using two spaces. Indentation is one tab and one tab is 
> > exactly eight characters (see Documentation/CodingStyle).
> > 
> 
> Wow!  8 spaces?  I always go with 4, 8 wastes way too much screen space. 

See Documentation/CodingStyle for reasons.

>   Is there a handy incantation to get emacs to auto indent with a hard 
> tab rather than 2 spaces like it does by default?

C-c . linux RET   (C-c . runs c-set-style; suggestions in
Documentation/CodingStyle are outdated).