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I'm working on a project with a friend soon. Given that he cares about these things more than me, I let him choose the indentation. Him being a Ruby fan, he chose two spaces.
My usual is to use tabs. Is there anyway I can set vim to, only in this specific folder, have it as two spaces when I press the tab button?
Macha
Posted 2010-02-13T22:04:18.543
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Weeks ago, I was facing the same problem and I found this : Secrets of tabs in vim
As I did for scala, it's easy to adapt this for ruby
vim will also read .vimrc in the current directory (when the exrc option is set in your normal vimrc), which is useful when editing large numbers of source files in the same directory, or to avoid corrupting source files you don't control.
Kami
Posted 2010-02-13T22:04:18.543
Reputation: 3 108
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Use the "set tabstop=2" option
Anonymous
Posted 2010-02-13T22:04:18.543
Reputation: 1
2The question was for only one directory. That would change it globally. – Macha – 2010-05-02T11:35:05.383
Double spaces? Now I really have heard everything! – Phoshi – 2010-02-13T22:07:34.913
I thought the meaning was clear. Double spaces = two spaces. Edited anyway... – Macha – 2010-02-13T22:08:16.083
Oh, no, I understood what you meant, I just didn't think anybody seriously used those over tabs :P – Phoshi – 2010-02-13T22:15:16.987
@Phoshi: I know. I like tabs, because at the end of the day you can change your editor settings if you are not happy with how wide they are. You can't do that with spaces (any amount) – Macha – 2010-02-13T22:16:20.307
Sure you can ... vim ... retab ... – Rook – 2010-02-13T23:43:59.317