Emacs: Set tab indent for just one file on the fly

Question

I work on an open source project where the creator sets his tab-indents to 2 spaces.

I\'d like to just enable it on the fly for the one file I work on and not other fil

Answer 1

You can make the variable js-indent-level local to the buffer using:

M-x make-variable-buffer-local js-indent-level

Then you can set that variable in the buffer using:

M-x set-variable js-indent-level 2