From: Rando Christensen <rando@...>
Date: 2002-11-22T00:58:36+09:00
Subject: Re: identing ruby in vim

Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:59:04 +0900: Austin Ziegler (Austin Ziegler
<austin@halostatue.ca>):

> Actually, the VIM filetype plugin probably shouldn't set the
> indentation at all. While I've shifted to 2-space indentation

Properly done, the indent file (located in indent/<filetype>.vim) should
only tell /when/ to indent, not /how/. this is handled by the same vim
mechanisms that make < and > change your indentation, and you can set
your vim up to use two spaces, a tab that'd displayed as 2 spaces, a set
of eight spaces that works like tabs (as in, you hit tab to go 8 spaces,
it treats it like a tab, but it's really 8 spaces in the file), etc etc
etc.

If a user doesn't like that, they'd turn of the indentation part of the
filetyping. For example, I use:

filetype plugin indent on

To only use the filetyping, it would be:

filetype plugin on

I don't know how off the top of my head, but it's also fairly easy to
set the filetyping options on a per-filetype basis- you can have
perl/php/c/xml use the filetyping with indentation, and ruby only the
basic filetyping.

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