Hi Tony,

Thanks a lot. Works like a charm.

Sean



A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
> 
> Sean Lerner wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Syntax highlighting with Vim 7 is working for some of my files, but for
>> others it's not.  They're all for lighttpd config files, but it only
>> works
>> for one of those files. Why is this?
>> 
>> My situation:
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 2920 Nov 15 19:33 lighttpd.conf
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 2920 Nov 15 22:47 lighttpd.conf.b.old
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 2940 Nov 15 17:40 lighttpd.conf.mem
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 5606 Nov 15 14:52 lighttpd.conf.old     <--
>> syntax
>> highlighting works 
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 5606 Nov 15 22:53 lighttpd.conf.old.b   <--
>> syntax
>> highlighting works (copy of light.conf.old)
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 2600 Nov 15 15:06 lighttpd.conf.special
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 2606 Nov 15 16:52 lighttpd.conf.working
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 2933 Nov 15 19:28 lighttpd.conf~
>> 
>> But for the rest of the files, syntax highlighting doesn't work.
>> 
>> Any pointers / tips appreciated.
>> 
>> Sean
> 
> Create (if it doesn't yet exist) or add to ~/.vim/filetype.vim (on Unix)
> or 
> ~/vimfiles/filetype.vim (on Windows) the uncommented lines below:
> 
> augroup filetypedetect
> " the line above must be first
> "
> " etc.
> "
> autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.conf* setf conf
> "
> " etc
> "
> " the line below must be last
> augroup END
> 
> Create the directory if it doesn't yet exist; replace conf (after setf) by 
> whatever filetype (such as apache) you want it to be.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Tony.
> 
> 

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