tab settings in vim

[danns]

If anyone is using vim and wants to set their tab and shiftwidth setting properly, as per the guidelines I recommend putting these values into your .vimrc file:

set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab
set nu  (for line numbers)
syntax on

any other suggestions?

[bibimidi]

Those are the minimum and should be nough to get going, i think. The rest not listed are just further customizations. I'm not in my linux box right to show my .vimrc. But maybe next time 

[mak]

any other suggestions?

Limit each line to 79 characters? (or 80)

set textwidth=79

[comprookie2000]

I use a python.vim with ftplugin
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/filetype.html
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=790