(Forgot the attachment)
David
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:31 PM, David Barnett <dbarn...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could you integrate the attached patch (or some variation) into vim, under
> the vim license?
>
> It includes:
>
> - A change to the ftdetect rule to consider files named "README" as
> text.
> - An ftplugin to override 'comments' and 'commentstring' for text
> files, since the default is not at all appropriate for text files.
>
> Of course, this has no effect on buffers with *no* filetype set, where
> people might reasonably want the default catch-all settings.
>
> David
>
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diff -r b8f703a4e55f runtime/filetype.vim
--- a/runtime/filetype.vim Fri Jul 04 16:43:17 2014 +0200
+++ b/runtime/filetype.vim Mon Jul 07 17:54:47 2014 -0700
@@ -2664,7 +2664,7 @@
" Plain text files, needs to be far down to not override others. This avoids
" the "conf" type being used if there is a line starting with '#'.
-au BufNewFile,BufRead *.txt,*.text setf text
+au BufNewFile,BufRead README,*.txt,*.text setf text
" Use the filetype detect plugins. They may overrule any of the previously
diff -r b8f703a4e55f runtime/ftplugin/text.vim
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/runtime/ftplugin/text.vim Mon Jul 07 17:54:47 2014 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+" Vim filetype plugin
+" Language: Text
+" Maintainer: David Barnett <daviebdawg+...@gmail.com>
+" Last Change: 2014 July 7
+
+if exists('b:did_ftplugin')
+ finish
+endif
+let b:did_ftplugin = 1
+
+let b:undo_ftplugin = 'setlocal comments< commentstring<'
+
+" We intentionally don't set formatoptions-=t since text should wrap as text.
+
+" Pseudo comment leaders to indent bulleted lists.
+setlocal comments=fb:-,fb:*
+setlocal commentstring=
