RE: How to test filetype in _vimrc

> that won't work. Either put the line
> setlocal syntax=off
> into your $HOME/vimfiles/after/syntax/dosbatch.vim ( I assume you are
> using Windows, create directories that don't exists yet)
> or use an autocommand like this:
>
> augroup dosbatch
> au!
> au FileType dosbatch :setl syntax=off
> augroup end
>
> regards,
> Christian

Thanks for your suggestion (also the autocommand alternative). Life is much better now while editing batch files. The reason I wanted to turn syntax highlighting off for batch files is because datetime values (10 consecutive digits) are displayed with random digits highlighted, which is very distracting.
 
Thanks again,
Roy Fulbright
 

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