slim-template/vim-slim — pull request #36 by jacknagel (2013-08-11 15:01:38+00:00)
Title: Remove over-eager ftplugin indent settings

It's not really appropriate for filetype plugins to set indent-related options.

In this case, the appropriate options (autoindent, expandtab, and sw=2) are already being set in indent/slim.vim.

smartindent is meant for C-like languages where the normal C indentation doesn't work. There's no reason to use it here (autoindent is what you want, but that's already set in indent/slim.vim).

There's no reason to set all of tabstop, softtabstop, and shiftwidth; and when using smarttab, only shiftwidth is required.

However, smarttab is a global option with no buffer-local value, so setting it (even with setlocal) changes the option for all buffers. Thus it should be left up to the user.

Thus I propose just removing this file completely.