i found solutions online on how to do indentation based on a filetype however none of them worked except the last one. i would really appreciate if someone could explain to me what was i doing wrong.
here are the solutions that didn't work my .vimrc contains set shiftwidth=2 set tabstop=2 solution1: ~/.vim/ftdetect/mine.vim setlocal shiftwidth=4 setlocal tabstop=4 ~/.vimrc au BufRead,BufNewFile *.mine set filetype=mine solution2: ~/.vim/after/ftdetect/mine.vim setlocal shiftwidth=4 setlocal tabstop=4 au BufRead,BufNewFile *.mine set filetype=mine solution3: autocmd FileType mine setlocal shiftwidth=4 tabstop=4 the following solution worked Solution 4: ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/mine.vim setlocal shiftwidth=4 setlocal tabstop=4 ~/.vimrc au BufRead,BufNewFile *.mine set filetype=mine any help is appreciated. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
