Change *.md to ft=markdown instead of modula2?

[David Barnett]

filetype.vim currently assigns filetype=modula2 to any *.md buffer unless it's called README.md. There may be programmers out there who use modula2, but I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say the vast majority of *.md files edited in vim are markdown, not modula2. Could we change the default?

If it's possible to create a content-based detection rule for modula2, that would be fine, as long as it's precise and empty files are configured as markdown. Of course, any modula2 programmers annoyed by the change could create their own ftdetect rules to override the settings, same as markdown users have had to do.

David

[Jacky Alciné]

+1 on this. I've made it a patch.

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[Christian Brabandt]

Hi Jacky!
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On Do, 02 Okt 2014, Jacky Alciné wrote:

> +1 on this. I've made it a patch.

Where is it? You should probably post it at vim_dev.


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Christian
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[Bram Moolenaar]

I recommend using .mkd for markdown files. There appears to be a wide
variety of file name extensions for Markdown. Using .mkd is the most
specific of the shorter ones, therefore it's the best choice.

Modula2 isn't used much these days, I wonder if someone knows if it can
be recognized by the first few lines.

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[LCD 47]

On 3 October 2014, Bram Moolenaar <Br...@moolenaar.net> wrote:
>
> David Barnett wrote:
>
> > filetype.vim currently assigns filetype=modula2 to any *.md buffer
> > unless it's called README.md. There may be programmers out there
> > who use modula2, but I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say
> > the vast majority of *.md files edited in vim are markdown, not
> > modula2. Could we change the default?
> >
> > If it's possible to create a content-based detection rule for
> > modula2, that would be fine, as long as it's precise and empty files
> > are configured as markdown. Of course, any modula2 programmers
> > annoyed by the change could create their own ftdetect rules to
> > override the settings, same as markdown users have had to do.
>
> I recommend using .mkd for markdown files. There appears to be a wide
> variety of file name extensions for Markdown. Using .mkd is the most
> specific of the shorter ones, therefore it's the best choice.

Sure, but that isn't useful when opening files created by other
people. :) GitHub made popular the use of *.md for Markdown, and I don't
think that particular trend will reverse any time soon.

> Modula2 isn't used much these days, I wonder if someone knows if it
> can be recognized by the first few lines.

Modula-2 is somewhat similar to Pascal, thus the answer is probably
no. IIRC the most used extensions for Modula-2 were *.mod and *.m2
anyway.

/lcd

[David Barnett]

Nice, so even among Modula-2 programmers this should be a pretty uncontroversial change. Looks like a simple matter of changing "README.md" to "*.md". Can we get that into the next vim release?

David

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On Friday, October 3, 2014 2:40:34 AM UTC+2, David Barnett wrote:
> filetype.vim currently assigns filetype=modula2 to any *.md buffer unless it's called README.md. There may be programmers out there who use modula2, but I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say the vast majority of *.md files edited in vim are markdown, not modula2. Could we change the default?
>
> If it's possible to create a content-based detection rule for modula2, that would be fine, as long as it's precise and empty files are configured as markdown. Of course, any modula2 programmers annoyed by the change could create their own ftdetect rules to override the settings, same as markdown users have had to do.

+1

I would welcome this change. Most Markdown files I've come across have
had the .md or .markdown (rarely .mdown) file extension. It would be
nice to have .md work out of the box.

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