On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Efraim Yawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Tony Mechelynck
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/10/08 13:05, Efraim Yawitz wrote:
>>> Why doesn't the following work to make all files in a given directory
>>> have a certain syntax highlighting?
>>>
>>> :au BufRead /some/directory set syn=somesyntax
>>
>> You should set 'filetype' rather than 'syntax'. What happens is (I
>> think) the following:
>
> I checked this also, and it also wasn't working. Then I realized what
> the problem was. I had done a :cd (actually a :lcd) to
> /some/directory and opened the file without the full path, so the
> match wasn't working. When opening with the full path, set syn worked
> fine. Now the question is, how do I get this match to work without
> the full path?
You could do something like the following (untested):
:auto BufRead * if expand('%') =~ '^/some/directory'|set ft=somefiletype|endif
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