sharkdp/bat

Custom fallback syntax opt-in

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#1,341 opened on Oct 24, 2020

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Hi, Thank you for bat, it is awesome (and so is fd!) Is there a way to have a fallback syntax ? I don't want to force a new syntax for known file types, I just want to set it to something reasonable for files that did not match any known type. thx, -m

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Research direction
Research how bat currently assigns syntax highlighting to files and explore adding an optional fallback syntax for unknown file types.
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rust
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cli
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Rust
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60