Saturday, July 16, 2011

Re: Establishing filetype for a class of documents

On Jul 16, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:

>> In Vim you can define the type of a file using 2 methods:
>>
>> * checking its extension, or filename
>
> This includes telling Vim that anything in $HOME/foo/bar/ is of filetype baz (/home/eric/foo/bar/* is a valid Unix glob for a "filename" here).

Thanks, Tony. As I said to, Thilo. I think this may be the best solution in this case. The files in question are all in subdirectories of a single directory. I'm sorry, though. I'm a little dense. Javier's reference led me to check out all the help related to new-filetype. I'm uncertain how to use the information to define the filetype with these files.

C.2. of the new-filetype help suggests creating a file with commands to detect the filetype. Putting that together with your's and Thilo's suggestion, would putting something like the following in my .vimrc do the job?

au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.~/foo/bar/* setfiletype markdown

Probably that's all garbled, but perhaps it will enable you to point me in the right direction.

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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir@bellsouth.net


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