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Date:      Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:38:42 +0100
From:      "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.f2s.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syntax highlighting of rc.conf with vim
Message-ID:  <20070728113842.GA30968@oberon.njm.f2s.com>
In-Reply-To: <9C496190-E2DE-4015-A340-CA0062B6EF9E@michaelworobcuk.de>
References:  <9C496190-E2DE-4015-A340-CA0062B6EF9E@michaelworobcuk.de>

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In message <9C496190-E2DE-4015-A340-CA0062B6EF9E@michaelworobcuk.de>, Michael Worobcuk wrote:
>
> I am using  vim-7.1.18.
> Everything works fine except the syntax highlighting of rc.conf.
> The problem is that vim does no highlighting for the rc.conf but other 
> .conf files are highlighted es expected.
> So I came to the conclusion that the syntax file for .conf would probably 
> be ok.
> I also tried to use vim 6.x and copy the syntax files from a machine were 
> everything works fine. But the problem did not disappear.
> Does anybody have a clou ?

You can do this by setting the filetype explicitly for rc.conf in your
~/.vim/filetypes file, e.g.

if exists("did_load_filetypes")
  finish
 endif
augroup filetypedetect
  au! BufRead rc.conf	setfiletype sh
augroup END


Cheers,
       Nick.
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