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

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