[H-GEN] Emacs configuration hassles

[Ben Fowler]

Dear All,

I'm trying to get XEmacs to do my bidding but I'm having little luck

I like to indent my code at 8 spaces per tab, so I put something like the
following in my .emacs file.

(set-custom-variables '(c-basic-offset 8))

(add-hook 'c-mode-hook (lambda () setq (c-basic-offset 8)))

No matter what I do, Emacs still insists on using a C indent distance of 2.
How can I fix this?

-warmest regards, 

Ben.

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