diff --git a/vim/ftplugin/vcl.vim b/vim/ftplugin/vcl.vim
index d5ae2c4233a17b631a26f441719d60a939c4728c..3496089f758b617244fcae945f5943b6398a96e1 100644
--- a/vim/ftplugin/vcl.vim
+++ b/vim/ftplugin/vcl.vim
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
+setlocal expandtab
+
 " Set the modeline to use a single line comment
 let b:ml_commentstring = '# %s'