From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T21:31:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Vim two space indentation

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:23:23PM +0900, John Maclean wrote:
} Hi guys,
} 
} This has probably been done before but I've looked through 5000+ emails and I've not seen a simple solution. I'd like to have two space indentation for *.rb files or those whose first line begins with !#/usr/bin/ruby. At the moment vim gives me eight spaces, (or is it a tab?).
} 
} I have the following lines in ~./vimrc
} 
} set nocompatible
} syntax on
} filetype plugin indent on
} filetype indent on    " Enable filetype-specific indenting
} filetype on           " Enable filetype detection
} 
} I also have the following files;
} /usr/share/vim/vim63/ftplugin/ruby.vim
} /usr/share/vim/vim63/compiler/ruby.vim
} /usr/share/vim/vim63/indent/ruby.vim 
} /usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/ruby.vim

I came to vim before the days of ftplugin. Actually, I came to vi first,
and already had filetype-specific configurations set up, so I sort of
ported that to vim when it came along. That said, the config lines you want
are:

set ts=2 sw=2 expandtab

It looks to me like you want it in either the ftplugin or indent directory,
but I'm not sure which. I believe the indent directory is intended for
automatic indentation configuration (equivalent to cindent), but again I am
not sure.

} John Maclean
--Greg