filetypes.conf(5)

💖 filetypes.conf(5) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because this is the manual page for filetypes.conf — the file type configuration of highlight. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

filetypes.conf — the file type configuration of highlight 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like, this config file is where you keep your filename extensions and your shebang patterns, and it maps them to highlight's syntax definitions. That's the whole vibe. 💅

If there's only one extension for a language, you literally don't need to do anything here — just name the lang file accordingly and it will work. No entry needed in this file. Iconic behaviour tbh. ✨

🫶 heads up: the filetype entries in gui_files/ext/fileopenfilter.conf should also be updated. Don't forget her, she gets jealous.

Extensions can be configured for multiple languages, no cap. Look at "asm" — she's assigned to both assembler and fasm. Multitasking queen. 👑

Now, the command line (CLI) and the Qt GUI builds handle ambiguous assignments very differently, and this is lowkey important:

• CLI: the first association listed here will be used
• GUI: a syntax selection prompt will be shown (it's asking you to choose, bestie, be nice)

If a filename has no extension by convention — like makefile — it may be added here anyway, or you can configure it as "Shebang". Either way works, do what feels right. 💜

Location: The first filetypes.conf found in a highlight search directory wins. First come, first served, no takebacks. 🏃‍♀️💨

And ngl, it's easily possible to enhance highlight's database of programming languages and colour themes — just peep the README file for the details. Go build your empire. 🌈

⭐ EXTENSION MAPPING EXAMPLE ⭐

{ Lang='purebasic',  Extensions={'pb', 'pbi'} }

look at her go, so clean, so organised ✨

🧚 SHEBANG MAPPING EXAMPLE 🧚

{ Lang='xml', Shebang=[[^\s*<\?xml\s+version='1.0'\s+[^(\?>)]*?>\s*$]] }

regex girlies rise up, this one's for you 💜

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Andre Simon <as@andre-simon.de> 💖

💀 SEE ALSO 💀

• highlight(1) man page

and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 mwah 💋

This page came to you courtesy of Andre Simon, dated 2019-03-12, and it's part of the filetypes.conf(5) manual. slay, stay hydrated, and go map some file types 💅✨