Why ft=kitty?

[dtomvan]

Hi, I tried looking through your configuration for kitty and I noticed that my syntax highlighting (comments being greyed out for example) is not present in specifically and only the files in this repo. Any other kitty configuration files I have or have seen don't have this issue.

I tracked it down and it turned out to be the modeline:

# vim:ft=kitty

This didn't trigger the builtin vim.filetype match anymore on *.conf files in my Neovim, because the file type was overridden by it.

A quick side-by-side:

With :set ft=kitty:

_With :set ft=conf:

This does sadly highlight color codes incorrectly, however not having any highlighting at all is kind of intrusive, and because of this my question is: Why did you choose to add a modeline for an unknown filetype?

[nekowinston]

The reason for vim:ft=kitty is vim-kitty.

[dtomvan]

Ah. Alright, thank you for your explanation and sorry for bothering you

[nekowinston]

No worries, I can see how it's opinionated. But when you have a longer Kitty config, that plugin is quite nice.