In my .vimrc I’ve got a generic tab setting of two spaces, and I’d like to override that on a per language basic (that is, four for Python, etc, otherwise use the default), but I’m having trouble finding any good example of this.
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In my .vimrc I’ve got a generic tab setting of two spaces, and I’d like to override that on a per language basic (that is, four for Python, etc, otherwise use the default), but I’m having trouble finding any good example of this.
Just put the settings into the filetype plugin file
~/.vim/ftplugin/LANGUAGE.vim .
My ~/.vim/ftplugin/perl.vim contains the lines:
These settings will automatically be in effect for each file with file type ‘perl’
(new or existing).