2012/9/30 Ben Fritz <[email protected]>

> It looks like Vim will automatically detect prolog rather than Perl if the
> first non-blank line contains any of:
>
> 1. the word "prolog"
> 2. a prolog comment, % or /* ... */
> 3. the prolog :- construct
>
> Otherwise, Vim detects Perl. So for existing files, just get into the
> habit of starting the file with a header comment and you'll be fine.
>
> I guess new files will always detect as Perl, but there's really not any
> way I can think of for Vim to detect in a general way what filetype a
> brand-new empty file should be. You could set up some BufNewFile autocmds
> based on project directory or something if you like for this.
>

Clever, thank you.

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