Configuring your favourite VIM for Drupal Coding Standards

1) Create a file (if not already existing) .vimrc in your home directory.

2) Put following vimrc file in ~/.vimrc:

set expandtab

set tabstop=2

set shiftwidth=2

set autoindent

set smartindent

set filetype=php

if has("autocmd")

  " Drupal *.module and *.install files.

    augroup module

    autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.module set filetype=php

    autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.install set filetype=php

    augroup END

 endif

 syntax on

3) Make change in your .bashrc ( ~/.bashrc) file to load vim for vi (if you haven't already):

alias vi='vim '

Done. You Vim is now drupal compliant.