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

On Friday, January 11, 2013 7:22:43 PM UTC-7, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 01/11/13 20:10, wolfv wrote:
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> > Vim will highlight markdown headings (e.g. #heading1) in files with the �.markdown� suffix.
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> > Is there a way to highlight markdown headings in files with the �.txt� sufix?
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> My 7.2 doesn't seem to do markdown by default. However, you can
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> override the 'filetype' in a .txt file by setting it to the same
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> thing it is in a .markdown file. You can find this with the following:
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> :e /path/to/file.markdown
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> :set ft?
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> take a note of the value, perhaps something obvious like "markdown".
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> Then use it to set the 'filetype' in your .txt files:
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> :e /path/to/markdownish_file.txt
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> :set ft=markdown
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> If it's something you want to do regularly, you could set up an
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> autocmd to set the filetype every time you open a .txt file.
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> -tim

Thanks Tim. That worked! I added this to my _vimrc file (I am using Vim 7.3):

" if .txt file, render markdown highlighting
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.txt setlocal ft=markdown

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