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Camille Goudeseune
Camille Goudeseune

Reputation: 3182

How can ~/.vimrc overrule filetype.vim's bad guess for syntax highlighting?

The GLSL syntax highlighter http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1002 works well. But it doesn't recognize .frag or .vert shader files that commonly begin with a line like #version 330. (This is on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, everything up to date.)

With such a line, after loading the file one must manually type set syntax=glsl, probably because /usr/share/vim/vim73/filetype.vim has

" Generic configuration file (check this last, it's just guessing!)

if ... getline(1)=~'^#' ... setf conf.

Why doesn't that get overruled by ~/.vimrc's au BufNewFile,BufRead *.frag,*.vert setf glsl? Is there a workaround short of blundering about in filetype.vim?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 809

Answers (1)

Camille Goudeseune
Camille Goudeseune

Reputation: 3182

How can I stop vim from loading a syntax file automatically for certain file types? came close. Here's the workaround, a file ~/.vim/filetype.vim:

if exists("did_load_filetypes")
  finish
endif

augroup filetypedetect
  " Override filetypes for certain files
  autocmd! BufNewFile,BufRead *.frag setfiletype glsl
  autocmd! BufNewFile,BufRead *.vert setfiletype glsl
augroup END

Upvotes: 2

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