On Friday, January 11, 2013 7:22:43 PM UTC-7, Tim Chase wrote: > On 01/11/13 20:10, wolfv wrote: > > > Vim will highlight markdown headings (e.g. #heading1) in files with the > > �.markdown� suffix. > > > > > > Is there a way to highlight markdown headings in files with the �.txt� > > sufix? > > > > My 7.2 doesn't seem to do markdown by default. However, you can > > override the 'filetype' in a .txt file by setting it to the same > > thing it is in a .markdown file. You can find this with the following: > > > > :e /path/to/file.markdown > > :set ft? > > > > take a note of the value, perhaps something obvious like "markdown". > > Then use it to set the 'filetype' in your .txt files: > > > > :e /path/to/markdownish_file.txt > > :set ft=markdown > > > > If it's something you want to do regularly, you could set up an > > autocmd to set the filetype every time you open a .txt file. > > > > -tim
Thanks Tim. That worked! I added this to my _vimrc file (I am using Vim 7.3): " if .txt file, render markdown highlighting au BufRead,BufNewFile *.txt setlocal ft=markdown -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
