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What is the difference between placing:
autocmd FileType ruby setlocal ts=2
in my ~/.vimrc and placing:
setlocal ts=2
in ~/.vim/ftplugin/ruby.vim?
If there is no difference, where should I place commands that are specific to one filetype?
As far as I know, there isn’t really a difference between the two.
I prefer to put commands like that in
ftpluginand keep my main.vimrclanguage-agnostic… But there are no hard-and-fast rules. An advantage to keeping it in yourvimrcwould be that your vim settings would be easier to move around (ex, you could get all your vim settings on a new machine by simply copying your.vimrc, instead of.vimrc+.vim). Obviously putting them in your.vimrcwill also have a minor performance penalty (ie, they will be loaded + executed for every file, not just ruby files)… But I wouldn’t really worry about that.