On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:22:43AM -0400, Eric Weir wrote: > > You can check the contents of a file to figure out its filetype. Check > > > > :help new-filetype-scripts > > Thanks Javier. The help might help, but what I would like to do would be to > include a class of files in an existing filetype, and to do it without > relying on the extent, as these files do not have an extent and cannot be > given one. > > It was my understanding that there are other features that can be used to > establish a filetype or to include a class of files in it.
In Vim you can define the type of a file using 2 methods:
* checking its extension, or filename
* checking its contents, if the filename has no useful info for
defining the filetype.
The help section I pointed you to shows how to check the content of a
file to define its filetype.
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