On 16/07/11 18:59, Javier Rojas wrote:
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
This includes telling Vim that anything in $HOME/foo/bar/ is of filetype
baz (/home/eric/foo/bar/* is a valid Unix glob for a "filename" here).
* checking its contents, if the filename has no useful info for
defining the filetype.
This is how Vim recognises any file whose contents start with #!/bin/sh
as a shell script, even without an extension (some shell scripts are
*.sh, but others have no filename extension).
In addition, for any file that includes a modeline (:help modeline) near
the begin or end of the file (usually among the first five and last five
lines) to set the filetype, you don't need any filetype-detecting
script. Vim help files are an example (look at their last line).
The help section I pointed you to shows how to check the content of a
file to define its filetype.
Best regards,
Tony.
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