Topic: Work Tools Revamp - JavaScript and CSS indents in emacs

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I can't believe this took so long to find! How to get CSS and JavaScript modes to honor tab-width.

Finally figured out how to get CSS, SCSS, SASS, and JavaScript modes to be the proper tab width!

The thing is that CSS and JavaScript modes and their derivitives actually do not honor global tab-width variable setting. They each have their own variables for setting the amount of spaces for indent.

I used the customization menu to set "Css Indent Offset" and "Js Indent Level" to 2 and saved my settings. That finally did the trick.

DO NOT expect something like this to work:

You'll probably still want to do that, but it's not enough to get these modes to work as expected.

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