Re: Change *.md to ft=markdown instead of modula2?

On 3 October 2014, Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net> wrote:
>
> David Barnett wrote:
>
> > filetype.vim currently assigns filetype=modula2 to any *.md buffer
> > unless it's called README.md. There may be programmers out there
> > who use modula2, but I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say
> > the vast majority of *.md files edited in vim are markdown, not
> > modula2. Could we change the default?
> >
> > If it's possible to create a content-based detection rule for
> > modula2, that would be fine, as long as it's precise and empty files
> > are configured as markdown. Of course, any modula2 programmers
> > annoyed by the change could create their own ftdetect rules to
> > override the settings, same as markdown users have had to do.
>
> I recommend using .mkd for markdown files. There appears to be a wide
> variety of file name extensions for Markdown. Using .mkd is the most
> specific of the shorter ones, therefore it's the best choice.

Sure, but that isn't useful when opening files created by other
people. :) GitHub made popular the use of *.md for Markdown, and I don't
think that particular trend will reverse any time soon.

> Modula2 isn't used much these days, I wonder if someone knows if it
> can be recognized by the first few lines.

Modula-2 is somewhat similar to Pascal, thus the answer is probably
no. IIRC the most used extensions for Modula-2 were *.mod and *.m2
anyway.

/lcd

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