Change filetype sl to renderman shader language instead of slang

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On 2010-07-23, AMDx64BT wrote: 
> Vim detects the extension .sl as slang filetype. I want that vim 
> detects the extension .sl as  renderman shader lang filetype by 
> default and not as slang filetype. 
> 
> I have add to my .vimrc: 
> au BufRead,BufNewFile *.sl                      setf sl 
> 
> But it doesn't work. Do you know any solution? 

One solution would be to put the following line in a file in your 
~/.vim/ftdetect directory (which you may have to create): 

  au BufRead,BufNewFile *.sl                      set ft=sl 

The name of the file doesn't matter as long as the suffix is .vim. 
Note that that line is the same as yours except that I used "set 
ft=sl" instead of "setf sl". 

It might also work to put that line in your .vimrc, but I think 
you'll have less chance of problems if you follow the 
recommendations in the user manual. 

See 

    :help :setf 
    :help new-filetype          " especially section A. 

Regards, 
Gary