Detect extensions on templates

[ephracis]

I have a lot of files that are templates. They are usually named like so:

• my_file.yml.ejs
• another_file.coffee.j2

Currently Code assumes that all ejs are HTML files but this is not always the case. It would be better if Code could detect both the yml part and the ejs part, and properly highlight the code according to this.

Now I have to manually switch language on all files which is tedious, and I also lose the proper highlighting of the template tags. This affects more than just pretty colors to. For example when I paste in large blocks of code I get the wrong indentation if the language is not correct.

[myrdd]

as a workaround, I'm using file associations like the following:

{
    "files.associations": {
    "*.html.j2": "html",
    "*.ini.j2": "ini",
    "*.yml.j2": "yaml",
  }
}

[ephracis]

Yeah I'm doing that too right now. But that won't make VS Code detect the jinja. 😒

[theballdredge]

started some work with templates recently, this would be super nice

[vscodebot]

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