Re: Filetype detection on vim

On 2012-07-29, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Saturday, July 28, 2012 11:10:35 PM UTC-5, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> > On 27/07/12 12:49, ansuman wrote:

> > > I want to add a new filetype with extention .pn. For this I
> > > had done following:
> > >
> > > I went to vim installation directory i.e. vim73 and I edited
> > > filetype.vim. I added following line
> > >
> > > au BufNewFile,BufRead *.pn setf potion
> > >
> > > in between augroup filetypedetect and augroup END

> > > Am I doing any wrong?

> > What I recommend is to add a new filetype.vim in one of the
> > following places (shown as they would appear in Vim):
> >
> > - Single-user on Windows
> >
> > $HOME/vimfiles/filetype.vim
>
> I actually prefer creating a file per filetype in
> $HOME/vimfiles/ftdetect, as detailed at the beginning of :help
> new-filetype

I agree that Ansuman should put his changes in one of the preferred
locations, but I sure can't see why they're not working for him
where they are.

Regards,
Gary

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