Closetag Vim on Markdown Filetype

Dec 17, 2018

I coudln’t help but noticing that the closetag plugin script for vim wasn’t working on any of the markdown files that had been previously edited.

The markdown files in question were of the abbreviated form md and not markdown.

It did work without a problem on any newly-created file and whether these files were of the form or had the extension md or markdown.

The README file of closetag specifies that in order for the plugin to work, it should be further specified as such on the initialization file with something such as:

 let g:closetag_filenames = "*.html, *.xhtml, *.phtml"

etcetera. ¹

At one given point I recall having *.md, which was more than enough for the closetag plugin to work without a problem, even with previously edited files.

This time around however, only having *.md did not remedy the problem.

Having *.markdown on the vim initialization file was necessary for the closetag plugin to work with previously edited markdown files that held a suffix .md extension

 let g:closetag_filenames = "*.md, *.mardown"

References

README file for closetag↵