Setting Vim whitespace preferences by filetype

Question

At my work, I am required to follow the house style for indentation, which goes as follows:

• 2 spaces when coding html and ruby
• tabs when coding javasc

Answer 1

There's also a nice vim script: DetectIndent which tries to detect the indentation of a file that you open. It's very handy if you work with many files with different coding style.

I use an autocommand in my .vimrc:

:autocmd BufReadPost * :DetectIndent