[TxMt] Changing language for a specific file

[Allan Odgaard]

On 11 Feb 2008, at 21:46, Nate Cavanaugh wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, but I'm now trying to get this to work, and  
> for some
> reason, it's still treating each of the files identically.
>
> Is there some special method for changing the language that I should  
> be
> using?
>
> For instance, I have css_cached.jsp. I copied that file and have
> css_cached.css.jsp. Whenever I change the language type it does it  
> for all
> jsp's, like before.
>
> Any suggestions?

If you use double-extensions, you will need to edit the fileTypes  
array in the grammar, as TM is not smart enough to automatically learn  
about these.

See e.g. http://blog.macromates.com/2007/file-type-detection-rspec-rails/



> Allan Odgaard-3 wrote:
>>
>> On 8 Jan 2008, at 19:38, Nate Cavanaugh wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>> Quick question, do you know if this is possible with TabMate  
>>> *without*
>>> modelines? I'm working on a huge code base with multiple users and
>>> strict
>>> coding standards and the modelines aren't allowed to sit in SVN,
>>> which means
>>> I have to copy the mode lines every time I edit the file, in which
>>> case, I
>>> might as well just manually change the language.
>>>
>>> Anyone know of a work around (even if it's a work around in SVN)?
>>
>> TextMate will get the file type either from the first line of the  
>> file
>> or the extension. The recommended solution is to use double- 
>> extensions
>> when it is important that different file types have the same “final”
>> extension, e.g. “foo.css.php”, “foo.js.php”, “foo.php” -- here all
>> files are php, but TextMate can assign different grammars to them
>> based on the secondary extension.
>>
>>
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