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Gvim syntax highlighting

I was trying to make Gvim highlight syntax of a certain type of file(as Perl) using following command

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.bias setf perl

But as the first line of this file doesn't start with a #!/usr/bin/perl. Gvim is not performing syntax highlighting of Perl. Any solution for this ?

Solution

  • Try this in your .vimrc (I think Gvim still uses that)

    autocmd BufRead *.bias set filetype=perl

    If you just want to do it for a single file then try:

    :set filetype=perl