Thilo Six wrote:

> -- <snip> --
> 
> > I would prefer to keep the direct file names, those are the ones that
> > are mostly used.  This applies to /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/limits.
> > For the last one you changed it to limits.conf.
> 
> good catch. Thank you.
> Would be something like the following OK then?
> e.g.:
> 
> au BufNewFile,BufRead /etc/sysctl.conf                setf sysctl
> +au BufNewFile,BufRead /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf   setf sysctl

That should be OK.

> Also I would like to ask if it would be OK for you if we were not
> hardcoding the path in filetype.vim.
> e.g.
> au BufNewFile,BufRead /etc/sysctl.conf                setf sysctl
> 
> would become
> au BufNewFile,BufRead */etc/sysctl.conf               setf sysctl
>                       ^
> or probably better:
> au BufNewFile,BufRead */etc/sysctl.conf               call 
> s:StarSetf('sysctl')
> 
> ?
> There is real benfit in here (as already mentioned earlier) e.g. when you have
> backups of /etc somewhere or have the need to rescue a system with a LiveCD.
 
True, when installing a new system I also make a backup of /etc.  With
the "etc/" in there it's unlikely to match in wrong files.  I suppose
you verified that "*/etc/sysctl.conf" still matches "/etc/sysctl.conf".

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