On Saturday, July 28, 2012 11:10:35 PM UTC-5, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 27/07/12 12:49, ansuman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am not getting how to add a new filetype to vim. I am on windows and I am > > > using vim73. > > > > > > I want to add a new filetype with extention .pn. For this I had done > > > following: > > > > > > I went to vim installation directory i.e. vim73 and I edited filetype.vim. I > > > added following line > > > > > > au BufNewFile,BufRead *.pn setf potion > > > > > > in between augroup filetypedetect and augroup END > > > > Don't change anything in $VIMRUNTIME or below, any upgrade (next week or > > 10 years from now) may revert your changes without warning. > > > > > > > > Then I opened my vim with a file with extension .pn. > > > I typed following command > > > :set filetype? > > > and got answer > > > filetype= > > > > > > Am I doing any wrong? > > > > > > Please help. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Ansuman > > > > What I recommend is to add a new filetype.vim in one of the following > > places (shown as they would appear in Vim): > > > > - Single-user on Windows > > $HOME/vimfiles/filetype.vim >
I actually prefer creating a file per filetype in $HOME/vimfiles/ftdetect, as detailed at the beginning of :help new-filetype -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
