.asc PGP armor files getting highlighted as YAML

[wesinator]

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Description

.asc ascii armor PGP key files are unexpectedly highlighted as YAML.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Save PGP key to .asc, or open existing .asc PGP

Expected behavior: not highlighted

Actual behavior: Highlighting is set to YAML

Reproduces how often: Always

Versions

apm  2.1.3
npm  6.2.0
node 8.9.3 x64
atom 1.34.0
python 2.7.10
git 2.17.2
Atom    : 1.34.0
Electron: 2.0.16
Chrome  : 61.0.3163.100
Node    : 8.9.3

Repro'ed on macOS and Ubuntu

[rsese]

Thanks for the report - though I can reproduce with 1.34.0 on macOS 10.12.6, I believe this will always be the case if a file starts with ---. E.g. if you create a file that's just:

---hello world

That will also open as a YAML file.

The workarounds are either to manually use Grammar Selector: Show to switch to plain text, or you can specifically tell Atom what to do with .asc files:

https://flight-manual.atom.io/using-atom/sections/basic-customization/#customizing-language-recognition

I.e. you can add this to your config.cson file in the core section:

    customFileTypes:
      "text.plain": [
        "asc"
      ]

[wesinator]

Yea, that makes sense.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of autodetection this way. Philosophically I'd rather it not try to guess on the content.

[rsese]

👍

I'm assuming that this autodetection isn't something the team would change at this point but I'll double check for you before closing this out.