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Johannes Altmanninger
3a856ef57b rc conf: treat ini files as conf if they contain a #-comment
*.ini files traditionally use ; but for example the "foot" terminal's
foot.ini uses #. Add a hack to treat ini files as "conf" filetype
if they contain a #-comment (very slim chance of false positives).
This requires to explicitly set comment_line to the default #,
because we set the "ini" filetype earlier.
2022-02-19 17:31:55 +01:00
Johannes Altmanninger
cc6fe5ae61 Add conf filetype, for generic Unix configuration files
We set the "ini" filetype for files ending in one of "repo", "ini",
"cfg", "properties" or "desktop".  Most of these actually use Unix
style comments (#) instead of DOS INI comments (;).

Introduce filetype "conf" which is similar to "ini" except it uses the
default # as comment_line string.  Both Vim and Emacs have a filetype
(or Major mode) named "conf" (hence modeline-parse of "vim ft=conf"
will work).

Here are references that show that the new "conf" files use #-comments:
*.repo -- search for # in
    https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/deployment_guide/sec-configuring_yum_and_yum_repositories
*.cfg: don't know much about this one, but at least the motivating file uses #
    https://github.com/buildout/buildout/blob/master/buildout.cfg
*.properties files:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.properties
*.desktop: per spec
    https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s03.html#comments
2022-02-19 17:31:16 +01:00