Question

I have the filetype plugin installed and using it. I have a ruby.vim file under ~/.vim/ftplugin/ that sets expandtab, softtabstop and shiftwidth.

I tried to do the same for .html.erb files, which seem to be of filetype eruby. I want my erb files to have tabs, and a tabstop and shiftwidth of 4, but vim, no matter what I put in eruby.vim, seems to always read ruby.vim after that, for some reason, and sets sts and sw just like I had opened a plain ruby file.

I also tried placing eruby.vim under ftplugin/after/, but I got the same results.

What is going on?

Answer 1

You should put the eruby.vim file in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/eruby.vim. It should just fine.