On Jul 16, 2011, at 7:11 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:

> If you were to open an arbitrary file with Vim, could you tell by
> looking at it whether it contained markdown?  If so, how?  Can you
> describe to someone else how to recognize the contents as markdown?
> If so, then Vim can probably be told to recognize it, too, and all
> you have to do is put that description in ~/.vim/scripts.vim.  It
> doesn't have to be an exhaustive description.  What you want to find
> is a simple rule or pattern or test that can be evaluated to
> answer, yes or no, is the content of this file markdown?

Thanks Gary,

There is one feature, unrelated to markdown, that all the files in question 
would have: at least one CamelCase name. I have no idea how to convert that 
into a rule, though I imagine you guy's could do it in a snap.

I think the better route is going to be the one offered by Thilo and Tony -- 
using the path to the files to define the filetype. I've taken a stab at how 
that might be done in my response to Tony. Your explanation leads me to think 
that I will have to create a script and put it where you said to put it. 

I assume scripts.vim can contain multiple scripts?     

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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA  USA
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