cfm filetype conflicts with vim's ColdFusion filetype

[harriott]

bug

Opening a *.cfm configuration file in vim gets it recognised as a ColdFusion configuration file, with subsequent incorrect syntax highlighting.

where this happens

In filetype.vim, *.cfm is identified as filetype cf, with syntax highlighting as per cf.vim (for ColdFusion Markup Language).

suggested fix

Convert all of your *.cfm configuration files to something unused elsewhere, such as *.clifm.

reason

We can then write a filetype plugin for your configuration files - I've begun one - vim-clifm.

[leo-arch]

Hy @harriott, thanks for reporting! I have already noticed this conflict, but didn't thought it might cause this kind of issue. Changing this should take only a few minutes, no problem. The only drawback would be backwards compatibility. Let me think of a way to handle this appropriately (maybe a command line switch). I'll let you know.

Btw, thanks for vim-clifm, that's cool!

[leo-arch]

Hi @harriott. The transition to .clifm config files is ready. Please give it a try: it should be pretty smooth. Old config files will be automatically renamed (after asking the user) using the new file extension.

Now it only remains to fix whatever is broken because of this change. Hope it's not much.

[harriott]

Wow, that was quick. I switched to AUR's clifm-git, which got me CliFM v1.6.1 with your change over to *.clifm. All working, and I've updated vim-clifm accordingly.

[leo-arch]

Perfect. Closing then and thanks again @harriott!