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I have some Racket programms that begin with the specification of a dialect

#lang plai-typed

#| racket code goes here ... |#

When I open these files with Vim, filetype is set to plai-typed. That is a problem because it breaks syntax highlighting.

If I delete the line that contains #lang, then filetype is set to racket and syntax highlighting works as expected.

Why is Vim setting the filetype that way? How to stop that without deleting the line with #lang?

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    This behavior is coming from here. You can probably work around it by setting g:racket_hash_lang_dict in your vimrc (takes precedence over that one) that includes a plai-typed key mapping to racket. (I'd also copy the rest of the dict entries to keep the behavior for those #langs too in that case.) I see that @D.BenKnoble pushed the last commit to that file, so wondering if he'd like to expand on handling of #lang for Racket?
    – filbranden ♦
    Dec 13, 2021 at 20:36
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    Could also be using my version of the plugin github.com/benknoble/vim-racket My version supports better overrides, IIRC. The hash_lang_dict approach is correct. I'll have to elaborate more later, but if you use my fork you won't need to keep all the other entries as they get merged in.
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Dec 13, 2021 at 23:50
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    thank you guys! that's correct, thanks for the workardound. If you answet the question I'll mark it as accepted
    – user37373
    Dec 14, 2021 at 1:40
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    I've made some edits, but if you will please edit and mention the plugin you were using, that will improve the question
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Dec 14, 2021 at 21:08

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Alright, this is my fault :)

As I explain here:

This is at least partially my fault; I advocated for this on the basis that not all *rkt files are actually racket, and the racket syntax shouldn't try to highlight them all.

OTOH, br is now correctly mapped to racket, and it's trivial to add sicp/etc. (My fork adds, for example, info and info/setuptab, which it supports. My fork also supports the new jsond language, but it doesn't need extra configuration precisely because of the new mechanism.)

See g:racket_hash_lang_dict in ftdetect/racket.vim. It would be nicer to merge the user's config with the defaults, but I didn't do that yet as I haven't needed it.

Fortunately the global variable is extensible.

Depending on which version of the plugin you use:

  • for the wlangstroth fork, use
:let g:racket_hash_lang_dict = { 'plai-typed': 'racket', <all the default values here> }
  • for the benknoble (my) fork, use just
:let g:racket_hash_lang_dict = { 'plai-typed': 'racket' }

Since my fork supports merging the current value with defaults. My fork also has a few other tweaks and overridable variables, as well as general improvements. It also gets updated more often.

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