Re: How to highlight markdown headings in .txt files?

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




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