From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-11-22T00:33:36+09:00
Subject: Re: identing ruby in vim

From: "Austin Ziegler" <austin@halostatue.ca>


>
> Actually, the VIM filetype plugin probably shouldn't set the
> indentation at all.

Correct.  The official one doesn't, but most people don't have that :|

> While I've shifted to 2-space indentation
> (because tabs are evil, and 4-space just gets too wide)

Careful!  I've noticed that most of the code posted to the list uses tabs (it
renders badly in Outlook Express - reminding one of exactly *why* tabs are
evil - oops).  Worse, a lot of it mixes tabs and spaces, the only thing nearly
everybody agrees one should *not* do.

> , it really
> doesn't belong in the "global" VIM filetype (more in a personal VIM
> filetype). I may post my (slightly modified) Ruby VIM filetype/
> syntax/etc. files to my website in the near future, along with
> instructions on how to use them and set them up.
>
> I also get folding and a bunch of other nice macros for doing Ruby.

It would be nice to see these - I'll probably shamelessly steal some of them
for the official files.

There's a page on the Wiki for VimExtensions, too.

Gavin