Monday, December 26, 2011

Re: why is Vim coloring text in txt files?

On 26/12/11 08:53, Thilo Six wrote:
> Tony Mechelynck wrote the following on 26.12.2011 04:47
>
> Hello
>
>>> Thanks Thilo.
>>>
>>> I found the Generic configuration code in my C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim
>>> \vim73\filetype.vim
>>> Where in the file should the local configuration code (below) be
>>> placed?
>>>
>>> " txt
>>> autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead
>>> \ *.txt,
>>> \*README*
>>> \ setl ft=text
>>>
>>> wolfv
>
> Sorry i am not familar with the windows version of vim. So you should follow
> Tonys hint. But i want to share cool little feature i just figured:
>
> ,----[ ft=text ]---------------------------
>
> " txt
> autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead
> \ *.txt,
> \\c*README*
> \ setl ft=text
> `---------------------------------------------
>
> The nice thing here is the additional '\c' which means 'ignore case'. At least i
> didn't know until today that this can be used there, too. Nice.
>
>
>> On Windows, it could either be part of ~/vimfiles/filetype.vim, after
>>
>> if exists("did_load_filetypes")
>> finish
>> endif
>
> Personly i would leave this out as i sometimes deliberately overwrite defaults

So what? $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim sets its filetypes by :setfiletype,
which does nothing if the filetype is already set. So you can override
them by setting the filetype in ~/vimfiles/filetype.vim (for Windows) or
~/.vim/filetype.vim (for Unix) which is sourced immediately before
$VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. One possible reason not to use this (but to
use ftdetect/foobar.vim or after/filetype/vim instead) would be if
sometime you wanted to be sure _not_ to override defaults. You would
then use ":setfiletype foobar" (not ":set filetype=foobar") in
ftdetect/foobar.vim.

> from '$VIMRUNTYME/filetype.vim'. I instead use:
>
> ,----[ ~/.vim/ftdetect/filetype.vim ]-------
>
> " only spend time on this once
> if exists("b:did_load_filetypes_user")
> finish
> endif
> let b:did_load_filetypes_user = 1
> `---------------------------------------------
>
> Oh and yes you can have '~/.vim/ftdetect/text.vim', '~/.vim/ftdetect/foo.vim'
> and '~/.vim/ftdetect/bar.vim' or just throw everything in
> '~/.vim/ftdetect/filetype.vim' as i do. As long as the file ends with '.vim' it
> should work.
> Again i do not know where this directory is on windows, most probably somewhere
> below '%appdata%'. 'set runtimepath?' should help here. Use the first directory
> as starting point.

Within Vim it is seen as below $HOME/vimfiles/, as follows (for Windows):

:e $HOME
:!mkdir %/vimfiles
:e %/vimfiles
:!mkdir %/ftdetect
:e %/ftdetect/text.vim
or
:e $HOME
:!mkdir %/vimfiles
:e %/vimfiles/filetype.vim

You can omit the each !mkdir commands if the corresponding directory
already exists.

On Linux it's simpler because GNU mkdir has a -p switch:

:!mkdir -pv ~/.vim/ftdetect
:e ~/.vim/ftdetect/text.vim
or
:!mkdir -pv ~/.vim
:e ~/.vim/filetype.vim

I could have used the internal mkdir() function, except that it isn't
guaranteed to exist on all platforms.

About the external command name: Unix has cd, mkdir, rmdir. Dos/Windows
have them too, and also aliases chdir, md, rd, so their users often
prefer cd, md, rd. I make a point of using mkdir and rmdir because they
are more portable.

>
>> and possibly together with other user-defined filetype detection
>> autocommands (BTW do not set that did_load_filetypes variable, it is set
>> by $VIMRUNTYME/filetype.vim), or else it could be all of
>> ~/vimfiles/ftdetect/text.vim (with paths shown as they could be used in
>> Vim but not in other Windows programs). Or you could replace ~/vimfiles/
>> by $VIM/vimfiles/ in either of these paths if you wanted these
>> customizations to apply to all users (all login names) on your computer.
>>
>> See
>> :help new-filetype
>>
>> See also
>> :help 'runtimepath'
>>
>> about the different default paths on Windows ("PC") vs. Unix/Linux/OSX
>> ("Unix").
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tony.
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