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dmaluka committed Apr 22, 2024
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Note that nested include (i.e. including syntax files that include other syntax
files) is not supported yet.

### Default syntax highlighting

If micro cannot detect the filetype of the file, it falls back to using the
default syntax highlighting for it, which highlights just the bare minimum:
email addresses, URLs etc.

Just like in other cases, you can override the default highlighting by adding
your own custom `default.yaml` file to `~/.config/micro/syntax`.

For example, if you work with various config files that use the `#` sign to mark
the beginning of a comment, you can use the following custom `default.yaml` to
highlight those comments by default:

```
filetype: unknown
detect:
filename: ""
rules:
- comment: "(^|\\s)#.*$"
```

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