.emacs

Hello,

I am reading "Programmiong with GNU tools", and so I am discovering Unix.

They say in the book that I am supposed to find in my user directory the 
file .emacs. It wasn't there. So I created it and put these lines inside:

(setq c-indent-level 5)
(setq c-continued-statement-offset 5)
(setq c-argdecl-indent 0)
(setq c-brace-offset -5)
(setq c-label-offset -5)

I don't know yet EMacs, but I suppose that with this file, indents must 
be 5 characters when I am in C mode. But that doesn't work...

PLease confirm the supposed behaviour of EMacs with this setup.

--
 .      .
 .  .:::.          ###           \|/        `  ___  '
   :(o o):  .     (o o)         (o o)      -  (O o)  -
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-