" Indentation " Automatically continue indentation across lines set autoindent " Keep indentation structure (tabs, spaces, etc) when autoindenting. set copyindent " Tab stuff " Size of a \t set tabstop=4 " Delete this many space chars when pressing backspace set softtabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 " < and > will hit indentation levels instead of adding/subtracting shiftwidth set shiftround " Use :retab to change the file to entirely space indents " Use :retab! to change the file to entirely tab indents