Tony, So... Is Bram reading the vim-dev? Or is that not the right place to post a patch?
Thank you. Alexis On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 10/10/08 06:18, Alexis Wilke wrote: >> Tony, >> >> I don't understand what you're talking about. >> >> Are you saying that you do not want to ever modify the filetype.vim if >> someone sends you a patch? >> >> Thank you. >> Alexis > > The only person who should modify the official $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim is > Bram, who is in charge of maintaining it. > > If you want to add a new filetype, or to modify how filetypes are detected, > _don't_ modify $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim because, as I said, sooner or later > your changes will be silently undone (any patch /may/ do it, and upgrading to > the next version /will/ do it). What you should do is add your changes to > $VIM/vimfiles/filetype.vim (all OSes, system-wide), > $HOME/vimfiles/filetype.vim (Windows, single-user) or $HOME/.vim/filetype.vim > (Unix, Mac, etc., single-user). These files are not touched by updates to > Vim. > > Best regards, > Tony. > -- > You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. > ------------ Alexis Wilke President Made to Order Software Corporation e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell-text: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (please, only small messages) Web Pages: http://www.m2osw.com Corporation Site http://www.ordermade.ws Order Made!(r) http://www.turnwatcher.com Turn Watcher(tm) Company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +(1) 916 220 6482 Fax: +(1) 916 988 1450 Address: 9275 Blue Oak Drive Orangevale, California 95662 United States of America CONFIDENTIAL This document contains non-public proprietary information that is subject to restrictions on use and/or disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this e-mail message in error, please e-mail the sender and delete all copies. Thank you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
