Saveconfig file for x11-wm/dwm should have suffix ".h". Reason being, when using vim, syntax highlight doesn't work! (... unless one manually sets it to C.) Reproducible: Always
Looking at the dwm-5.6.1 ebuild, it is showing: save_config config.h ... so this appears to be an issue with save_config (I'm surprised nobody misses syntax highlighting!)
In vim you should be able to manually invoke syntax highlighting. I think (warning emacs user) the command is :set syntax=
I already now this. The files should be saved to the system as: /etc/portage/savedconfig/x11-wm/dwm-5.6.1.h instead of just: "/etc/portage/savedconfig/x11-wm/dwm-5.6.1" As I stated within comment #1, this appears more of a save_config ebuild function issue? I haven't grepped the ebuild function yet to see it's paramters. It's possible it has an incantation to preserve the file suffix, while it renames the file name with version numbering.
... if somebody can point me really quick, i'll submit a patch quickly.
It is in savedconfig.eclass and it uses the package name to store configuration I guess it is to be sure to not collide with other saved configurations.
I see it now in savedconfig.eclass The function is taking an input filename, and completely renames it to it's own file stripping any suffixes. It should detect if there's a file suffix, and preserve it. if suffix=".py", then preserve py if suffix=".h", then preserve py (not sure if there's a syntax highlight profile for kernel/busybox simple config files) (But then this might break the consistency of the folder layout of /etc/portage/savedconfig.) It really sucks to have to type the extra command and defeats the purpose of auto filetype detection. ":set syntax=c" does work in vim. Doesn't sound like anybody is interested though.
I reopen and assign to base-system as it is not a dwm issue.
create a symlink to the file if you really need syntax highlighting and cant override it yourself ln -s <file> foo.h vim foo.h if syntax highlighting is your only concern, i'd prefer to not screw with the eclass since it's known to work
duh. didn't think of this.
