On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:22:43AM -0400, Eric Weir wrote:
> > You can check the contents of a file to figure out its filetype. Check
> > 
> > :help new-filetype-scripts
> 
> Thanks Javier. The help might help, but what I would like to do would be to 
> include a class of files in an existing filetype, and to do it without 
> relying on the extent, as these files do not have an extent and cannot be 
> given one. 
> 
> It was my understanding that there are other features that can be used to 
> establish a filetype or to include a class of files in it.

In Vim you can define the type of a file using 2 methods:

  * checking its extension, or filename
  * checking its contents, if the filename has no useful info for
    defining the filetype.

The help section I pointed you to shows how to check the content of a
file to define its filetype.

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Javier Rojas

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