Re: Filetype detection on vim

On Saturday, July 28, 2012 11:10:35 PM UTC-5, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 27/07/12 12:49, ansuman wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> >
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> > I am not getting how to add a new filetype to vim. I am on windows and I am
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> > using vim73.
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> > I want to add a new filetype with extention .pn. For this I had done
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> > following:
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> >
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> > I went to vim installation directory i.e. vim73 and I edited filetype.vim. I
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> > added following line
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> >
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> > au BufNewFile,BufRead *.pn setf potion
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> >
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> > in between augroup filetypedetect and augroup END
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> Don't change anything in $VIMRUNTIME or below, any upgrade (next week or
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> 10 years from now) may revert your changes without warning.
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> >
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> > Then I opened my vim with a file with extension .pn.
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> > I typed following command
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> > :set filetype?
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> > and got answer
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> > filetype=
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> >
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> > Am I doing any wrong?
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> >
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> > Please help.
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> >
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> > Thanks
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> > Ansuman
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> What I recommend is to add a new filetype.vim in one of the following
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> places (shown as they would appear in Vim):
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> - Single-user on Windows
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> $HOME/vimfiles/filetype.vim
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I actually prefer creating a file per filetype in $HOME/vimfiles/ftdetect, as detailed at the beginning of :help new-filetype

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