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by throwaway125 4836 days ago
The following line in your vimrc will make vim not expand tabs for every file named "Makefile".

    au BufRead,BufNewFile Makefile set noexpandtab
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cturner 4836 days ago
Wow - this thread is full of good advice. I have not touched my dot files in about four years, and today they're all getting an upgrade. Thanks!
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X-Istence 4836 days ago
At least in my vim, Makefiles are automatically set to noexpandtab even-though I have it set to automatically expand tabs for everything else.
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