" Adopt the indent of the last line on new lines set autoindent " Use spaces instead of tabs set expandtab " Indent with four spaces when an indent operation is used set shiftwidth=4 " Insert four spaces when Tab is pressed set softtabstop=4 " When indenting lines with < or >, round the indent to a multiple of " 'shiftwidth', so even if the line is indented by one space it will indent " up to 4 and down to 0, for example set shiftround " Don't join lines with two spaces at the end of sentences; I don't two-space, " despite the noble Steve Losh's exhortations set nojoinspaces " \x strips trailing whitespace via a custom plugin nmap x StripTrailingWhitespace