Filename "Portfile" is evil

cssdev at mac.com cssdev at mac.com
Wed Aug 22 21:28:58 PDT 2007


On Aug 22, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> Also, editors like TextWrangler will do syntax highlighting of  
> files, based on the filename extension. Since Portfiles have no  
> extension, no syntax highlighting is provided.

I wish that application developers would fix their syntax rules to  
allow matching entire filenames rather than merely extensions. I've  
run into the same problem with other files. I can't rename all my  
Makefiles. :)

Chris



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