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I'm an emacs novice and have a pretty simple question. I'm using GNU
emacs (version?) on a Sun SparcStation. I'd like to know how I can set
the TAB character "width" to 4 spaces. I believe it defaults to 8
spaces when in text-mode. Although Lisp is totally foreign to me, I
have hacked-around in my .emacs file and tried the following:

	(setq c-tab-always-indent nil)
	(setq tab-width 4)

This first attempt doesn't seem to do anything. So I tried the
following: 

	(global-set-key "	" (quote tab-to-tab-stop))
	(edit-tab-stops)

This does the job, but in a really lame way: If I invoke emacs from an
X-Window without any file name argument, emacs starts up with the
edit-tab-stops buffer. I can then manually modify the tab stops, do a
C-c C-c to save the new tab stops, and start grabbing files and
editting away with the new tab stops in effect. If I invoke emacs from
an X-Window _with_ a file name argument, emacs loads the named file
into the current buffer on "top" of the edit-tab-stops buffer. So I
could change buffers to the tab stops buffer, modify tab stops, switch
buffers, edit file, etc...
This *works* but there must be a better, more automated way (something
like the first attempt maybe?). 

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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