Detect file type from modelines

[nkh]

Duplicates

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Current behavior 😯

on https://github.com/nkh/ftl, the tool report 500 lines of code, maybe detecting bash code lines needs to looked at

Expected behavior 🤔

report a more accurate number of lines

Steps to reproduce 🕹

clone https://github.com/nkh/ftl
run the tool

Additional context/Screenshots 🔦

No response

Possible Solution 💡

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[spenserblack]

report a more accurate number of lines

Thanks for the report! Can you provide some more information? Why does the number of lines look inaccurate to you? What number were you expecting?

[nkh]

Hi, the problem arrises from the fact that the code is Bash and that notoriously difficult to count, sometimes "# vim: set filetype=bash :" is added at the end of the files and can be used at a hint.

I guess it's at least ten times more code than reported. (506 reported)

[spenserblack]

Oh, I see what you mean. For example, this is a bash file, but won't be detected.

Right now, these are the hints used to detect a file's type:

• extension (e.g. .bash)
• shebang (e.g. #!/bin/bash)

Right now this project still uses tokei for language detection, which does not check for things like modelines.

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I'm going to convert this bug report into a feature request to detect modelines