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acksys
acksys

Reputation: 492

Override ftplugin for files under one directory

What's the best way to override my ftplugin settings for one project i.e. files under a specific directory?

For example, I have setlocal tabstop=4 in my ~/.vim/ftplugin/javascript.vim because all my company's projects have this whitespace policy.

But in one personal project I want to use tabstop=2 in my .js files.

I understand I can place a custom .vimrc in that project's directory and enable vim's exrc option to make it read that .vimrc file. Is this the best way?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1006

Answers (2)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172520

I use the localrc.vim - Enable configuration file of each directory plugin for this. It not only allows sourcing of a "local .vimrc" file, but also offers filetype-specific settings for particular subdirectories (by default, the files are named .local.{filetype}.vimrc).

Upvotes: 2

Akobold
Akobold

Reputation: 946

set exrc will read a .vimrc file in the current directory, but will also read the structure under .vim directory. So you can add

myproject/.vim/after/ftplugin/javascript.vim

to your project; It'll work as if this file were on your home dir when you open files from myproject dir.

Upvotes: 4

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