Saturday, September 24, 2011

Re: Highlight

Hi Alessandro!

On Sa, 24 Sep 2011, Alessandro Antonello wrote:

> According to what I see with MacVim, the only file that is highlighted
> from the /var/log is a set of *messages* files. What you need to do is
> add an auto command in your 'vimrc' file to including the LOGs you
> whant to highlight. Or, more basically you can set the file type after
> you open that file.
>
> For example, I added the following to my `vimrc' file:
>
> au BufNewFile,BufRead /var/log/*.log setf messages
>
> Any file from `/var/log' with `.log' extension will be highlighted as
> `messages' file type.

There exists already such an autocommand in $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim

regards,
Christian

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