From 2d0d0416e7725fd8db16dc93816269cce7ac797f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6ran=20Karl?=
 <3951388+JoeKar@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 20:44:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] buffer: Prefer user defined over built-in file types

---
 internal/buffer/buffer.go | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/internal/buffer/buffer.go b/internal/buffer/buffer.go
index 3e4fc766..29dd823a 100644
--- a/internal/buffer/buffer.go
+++ b/internal/buffer/buffer.go
@@ -735,27 +735,29 @@ func (b *Buffer) UpdateRules() {
 		}
 	}
 
-	// search in the default syntax files
-	for _, f := range config.ListRuntimeFiles(config.RTSyntaxHeader) {
-		data, err := f.Data()
-		if err != nil {
-			screen.TermMessage("Error loading syntax header file " + f.Name() + ": " + err.Error())
-			continue
-		}
-
-		header, err = highlight.MakeHeader(data)
-		if err != nil {
-			screen.TermMessage("Error reading syntax header file", f.Name(), err)
-			continue
-		}
-
-		if ft == "unknown" || ft == "" {
-			if header.MatchFileName(b.Path) {
-				syntaxFiles = append(syntaxFiles, syntaxFileBuffer{header, f.Name(), nil})
+	if !foundDef {
+		// search in the default syntax files
+		for _, f := range config.ListRuntimeFiles(config.RTSyntaxHeader) {
+			data, err := f.Data()
+			if err != nil {
+				screen.TermMessage("Error loading syntax header file " + f.Name() + ": " + err.Error())
+				continue
+			}
+
+			header, err = highlight.MakeHeader(data)
+			if err != nil {
+				screen.TermMessage("Error reading syntax header file", f.Name(), err)
+				continue
+			}
+
+			if ft == "unknown" || ft == "" {
+				if header.MatchFileName(b.Path) {
+					syntaxFiles = append(syntaxFiles, syntaxFileBuffer{header, f.Name(), nil})
+				}
+			} else if header.FileType == ft {
+				syntaxFile = f.Name()
+				break
 			}
-		} else if header.FileType == ft {
-			syntaxFile = f.Name()
-			break
 		}
 	}