Being a command-line dinosaur, I use gvim for all of my editing, both on Windows and Linux. I handle projects for a number of different clients, and each of those clients has their own standards for tabbing, indentation, line length, and so on. One of the things I have missed in vim is the ability to have project-specific settings that cover an entire directory tree.

Well, with a few minutes of searching today, I discovered a way to do this. Vim has the ability to have certain commands executed based on the file name pattern; that's how it does syntax coloring, for instance. It turns out that this pattern matching is flexible enough to handle my case. I added this to my global _vimrc:

autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile c:/dev/client1/* so /dev/client1/_vimrc
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile c:/dev/client2/* so /dev/client2/_vimrc
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile c:/dev/client3/* so /dev/client3/_vimrc

Works as pretty as you please.