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 received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
