Changing Vim indentation behavior by file type

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You can add .vim files to be executed whenever vim switches to a particular filetype.

For example, I have a file ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/html.vim with this contents:

setlocal shiftwidth=2
setlocal tabstop=2

Which causes vim to use tabs with a width of 2 characters for indenting (the noexpandtab option is set globally elsewhere in my configuration).

This is described here: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_05.html#05.4, scroll down to the section on filetype plugins.

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