--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
quoted text
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > To be true I do those "whitespace cleanup" patches when I notice
> > that something is mis-aligned for _my_ tab width (2 spaces).
> 
> Oh, wow.
> 
> You have clearly been damaged by some nasty GNU coding style or similar.
> 
> Please immediately turn tabs into 8 character hard-tabs, and read the 
> kernel Documentation/CodingStyle document.
> 
> After that, you may have to go to some detox unit to purge yourself of the 
> habit of 2-character indents, and I realize it will be hard and you'll 
> feel like shit for a while, but you'll be a better person for it.
> 
> It's like kicking a bad drug habit. It may be painful for a while, and you 
> might wistfully think back on the "happy days" when things went by in a 
> haze of unclear indentations, but really, it's worth it.

Funny, but true.

One way to do it is:

(defun my-perl-mode ()
  (setq perl-indent-level 8)
  (setq perl-continued-statement-offset 8)
)

(add-hook 'perl-mode-hook 'my-perl-mode)

     Luben

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