That sounds like an excellent idea, and I'd be very grateful to have  
such a detector. As to keywords: most of my ConTeXt files start with  
\enableregime; you may want to add this to your list.

Best

Thomas


On Feb 3, 2006, at 3:17 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> I use (g)vim to edit both context and latex files. Unfortunately, both
> of them usually have *.tex extension. This mean that detecting
> filetype from extension is not possible, so one should look into the
> contents of the file to see if it a context file or not.
>
> I am planning to submit a ftdetect for context to vim. Right now, I
> check if the first six lines of the file contain any of
> '\\start\|\\enablemode\|\\unprotect\|\\setvariables\|\\module\|\ 
> \usemodule'
> and if so, set the filetype to context, otherwise it is set to tex
> (that loads latex plugins).
>
> This works for my context writing style. I would like to know about
> other people's preference.
>
> 1. Do you write some keyword unique to context in the first few lines
> of the file. Should I also check the last few line lines.
>
> 2. Are there any other keywords that you will like to include.
>
> 3. Is it enough to check the first 6 line or should I check more. I do
> not want to check more lines as this will make the detection slower
> (by a few mili secs).
>
> Thanks,
> Aditya
>
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