of for vim " Don't use tabs by for indentation. Spacer are nicer to work with. set expandtabI also set this for vim: filetype indent on which uses TABs for Makefiles as required. That doesn't handle Changelogs though, so for situations like that I also have this setting: "Shift-tab to insert a hard tab imap<silent> <S-tab> <C-v><tab>
I just put "set noexpandtab" in ~/.vim/after/indent/changelog.vim instead. Paolo