Dynamic Indentation Width In Vim

How to auto-indent differently when coding in different programming languages ? I started hacking this problem when I found myself prefer to indent 4 spaces in Python yet 8 for C. As a Vim user, I do this: Of course I put this in my vimrc:

filetype plugin indent on

Then I copy

$VIMRUNTIME/indent/python.vim

which is the original indentation setting file for python, to

~/.vim/indent/

Finally, customize it by adding the following lines in to the new copy:

setlocal shiftwidth=4 setlocal ts=4

The default indentation width in vim is 8 spaces, and when vim detects a Python source file, it automatically changes that to 4 spaces. Problem solved! A hint about $VIMRUNTIME: you can use this variable IN vim, or find the path it stands for by typing

:!ls $VIMRUNTIME

then hit TAB. I'm curious if someone else has solved the same problem. What's your solution in vim? How about other editors? IDE?

Recalled a little bit C

It took me almost an hour to code the messy thing in C,which wouldn't take me more than 5 minutes to achieve 1 year ago. Its basic job is to output all the possible combinations of 5 input characters, including those have less than 5 characters. I used DFS to transverse the answer tree, and output the recorded path every time it arrived a leaf.Meantime,there's a variable to control the depth of the search increases so that we get all the combinations made up from 1 to 5 characters. Here it is~

//out put all the combinations of 5 input characters,less than 5 included #include<stdio.h> void try(int); //DFS function int used[5]; //to record if one charater is used char result[6]; char letters[5]; int depth; //to limit the depth of the search int main (void) { int i,j; for (i=0;i<5;i++) scanf("%c",&letters[i]); for (depth=1;depth<=5;depth++){ for (j=0;j<5;j++) used[j]=result[j]=0; try(0); } return 0; } void try(int lim) { int i; if (lim == depth) { //reach the leaf,time to output for (i=0;i<depth;i++) printf("%c%s",result[i],(i==(depth-1))?"\n":""); return; } for (i=0;i<5;i++) { if(!used[i]){ //pick an unused character used[i]=1; result[lim]=letters[i]; try(lim+1); //go deeper used[i]=0; //set back the usage state back } } }