thanks very much on this. will give it a shot

sk

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2012-03-01, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
> > skrite, Thu 2012-03-01 @ 08:15:12-0800:
> > > i do a lot of work in python and a lot in ruby, html, and javascript.
> > > What i would like is for all my python files to behave with 1 tab = 4
> > > spaces, with the correct indent, etc.. But on the ruby,html,and
> > > javascript, i need only 2 spaces.
> > >
> > > In both cases, i need the tabs converted to spaces.
> > >
> > > how would i set something like this up?
> >
> > Write a script that sets the options as you want them for a particular
> > filetype, then save it as ~/.vim/ftplugin/python.vim,
> > ~/.vim/ftplugin/ruby.vim, etc.
>
> If you do that, any settings you make may be overwritten by settings
> made in the standard ftplugins in $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin.  A better
> place for your scripts is in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin.  As the name
> implies, those scripts will be sourced after all the others, so any
> settings made in those scripts will be made last.
>
> > See also: `:help ftplugin`.
>
> and
>
>    :help after-directory
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>
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