" Vim can use per directory configuration files like this. " To enable that feature two lines are needed in your ~/.vimrc " set exrc " enables per-directory .vimrc files " set secure " disable unsafe commands in local .vimrc files " Characters width is set to 109 for .c and XML but for everything else 79. " If you update this file make sure to update .dir-locals.el & .editorconfig set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set expandtab set makeprg=GCC_COLORS=\ make set tw=79 au BufRead,BufNewFile *.xml set tw=109 shiftwidth=2 smarttab au FileType sh set tw=80 shiftwidth=4 smarttab au FileType c set tw=109 shiftwidth=8 tabstop=8 smarttab expandtab