How to highlight apache2 conf files in /etc/apache2/

[zeroarst]

For example:
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf
/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
I thought they can be detected as apacheconf file type.

I added this to ~/.config/micro/settings.json

{
    "/etc/apache2/*.conf" : {
        "filetype": "apache2conf"
    }
}

Does not work.

Also manually added apache2conf.yaml to ~/.config/micro/syntax

filetype: apache2conf

detect:
    filename: "\\.conf$"
    ...

The rest is the same as https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/blob/master/runtime/syntax/apacheconf.yaml
Does not work neither...
Not sure the filename is correct regex though. I am curious if I can use /etc/apache2/*.conf?

[dmaluka]

It should work. Moreover, it should work with just this:

{
    "/etc/apache2/*.conf" : {
        "filetype": "apacheconf"
    }
}

i.e. you shouldn't need to create your own apache2conf.yaml, you can just use the default apacheconf filetype with your own /etc/apache2/*.conf path. I've just tried and it works for me.

[zeroarst]

But other settings such as "clipboard": "terminal" and "mkparents": true actually work...🤔

[dmaluka]

Hmm, don't you have another settings.json in your root home directory as well? :)

[zeroarst]

It does.

But my confusion is clipboard and mkparents settings in my user's settings.json seem to get picked up even when I use sudo, so I thought the filetype settings should be applied too.

[dmaluka]

Ah yeah... It probably wasn't "picked up". You probably created those clipboard and mkparents via the set command in micro, not by editing settings.json directly, and you probably ran the same set command once when running micro as root as well. That's probably how those settings ended up in your root's settings.json as well.

The filetype option is an exception here: it is always treated as a local (per-file) option, not as a global one. I.e. you cannot just set "filetype": "foo" in settings.json for all files. Also for the same reason, the set filetype ... command doesn't write a permanent setting to settings.json (unlike in case of most other options), it only changes the filetype temporarily, i.e. for the currently opened file in the current pane. Although you can permanently set filetype per file path, as you did, but you can only do that by editing settings.json yourself, since the set command in micro currently doesn't support that.

[zeroarst]

I forgot to ask. Is it possible to use all the same configurations for all users?

[dmaluka]

I think so. You can set MICRO_CONFIG_HOME env variable to the same value for all users.