On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 19/09/11 00:14, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
= What [the OP was] doing: =
1. in your .vimrc (1 line):
autocmd BufReadPost,BufNewFile *.myfile source ~/myfile.vim
2. in ~/myfile.vim (6 lines of code):
if exists("b:myfile")
finish
endif
let b:myfile = 1
syntax match special /special/
highlight special term=bold cterm=bold
= What [the OP] could be doing (one version): =
1. in your .vimrc (3 lines):
these 3 lines actually belong in ~/.vim/filetype.vim (for Unix) or in
~/vimfiles/filetype.vim (for Windows) or in $VIM/vimfiles/filetype.vim
(for access by any user, on any OS) — in all cases, create missing
directories as you go along. The "other version" below (replacing
filetype.vim by ftdetect/myfile.vim and doing away with the augroup,
which Vim sets before sourcing everything in the ftdetect directory)
would also work.
Interesting. I didn't know about ~/.vim/filetype.vim.
This way this autocommand will be correctly forgotten and remembered
back if ever you do ":filetype off" and later ":filetype on".
See ":help new-filetype".
This wasn't the version I was advocating. But, since the OP implied
that creating the proper directories was more complex ("Thanks but if
these are the alternatives then it's simpler to just [keep things as
before]"), I was providing a way that would work without having to
create more directories.
For the record, my suggested "= What you could be doing (the other
version): =" is the one I actually recommend (and is what new-filetype
seems to advocate):
= What you could be doing (the other version): =
1. in ~/.vim/ftdetect/myfile.vim (1 line):
au BufReadPost,BufNewFile *.myfile setf myfile
2. put the last two lines of ~/myfile.vim into ~/.vim/syntax/myfile.vim
(2 lines):
syn match special /special/
hi special term=bold cterm=bold
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