Sublime Text knows to use // for comments in files with the extension .js and # for files with the extension .sh. But I have many files (such as /etc/hosts) which require a particular comment character, but have no extension that Sublime Text can recognize.
Is there a way, on a per-file basis, to tell Sublime Text “This is a file of type X; when I press Ctrl-/, please comment the selected lines in this file with the comment string Y”?
This behavior does only work for files, which have a syntax highlighting und is usually provided together with the syntax definition (e.g. see here). Since the config files don’t have a syntax definition this command also does not work.
However one could create a new command on the same hotkey, which is only triggered on certain files and has the same behavior.
it looks like https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Hosts defines which comment character to use for /etc/hosts, maybe install that package - even though the file has no extension, it should be detected based on it’s name
This still only adds syntax highlighting and the behavior for hosts files, but not for other config files.
For other config files I use the package https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Generic%20Config
@blackslate, you can also see the issue: