Automatic Hard vs Soft tab indentation based on type of file?

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I'd like to default to soft tabs, indented two spaces (but hard tabs displayed as two spaces for Makefiles), and for vim to reindent appropriately on save.

What do you mean exactly by "reindent appropriately on save"? — jxh, Feb 28 '13 at 20:43

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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See this question. For your case, you would want this in your .vimrc:

set tabstop=2
set softtabstop=2
set expandtab

And this in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/make.vim:

setlocal noexpandtab

edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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answered Feb 28 '13 at 18:36

Eevee

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 28 '13 at 18:40

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You can use autocmd for this, so it pretty much becomes a oneliner in your.vimrc

autocmd Filetype jade setlocal ts=2 sw=2 expandtab
autocmd Filetype yaml setlocal ts=2 sw=2 expandtab

Everything else will still use the global defaults.

answered Feb 28 '13 at 18:40

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Automatic Hard vs Soft tab indentation based on type of file?

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