I have a bunch of these executable scripts, with shebang lines, and I want configure vim to detect the filetype using the shebang line. The problem is that these scripts all must have the .foo extension (they're run automatically by a build system), and the system-wide filetype.vim recognizes .foo files as having a particular filetype, which is not the one I want. Therefore, vim thinks it knows what kind of files these are and never reads the shebang line.
How can I configure vim so that this incorrect recognition stops happening? Basically, I want things so that when I open a .foo file, it identifies the filetype only from the shebang line. I tried using an autocmd to ignore the incorrect filetype: autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.foo set filetype=ignored But this leaves the files without any useful filetype at all. I suspect that I need to somehow unset the filetype and then tell vim to set it only from scripts.vim. However, I have no idea how to do this. Any help would be much appreciated. Alvin Kerber -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
