How to make VS Code to treat other file extensions as certain language

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Or is there a way to switch the current file s language to use syntax highlight feature   For example    jsx actually uses JavaScript but VS Code doesn t recognize it

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The easiest way I ve found for a global association is simply to ctrl k m  or ctrl shift p and type  change language mode   with a file of the type you re associating open   In the first selections will be  Configure File Association for  x     whatever file type - see image attached  Selecting this makes the filetype association permanent    This may have changed  probably did  since the original question and accepted answer  and I don t know when it changed  but it s so much easier than the manual editing steps in the accepted and some of the other answers  and totaly avoids having to muss with IDs that may not be obvious

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I found solution here  https   code visualstudio com docs customization colorizer  Go to VS CODE FOLDER resources app extensions  and there update package json

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eg       vscode settings json in workspace       files associations           Container js    javascriptreact           components     js    javascriptreact           config routes js    javascriptreact

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Hold down Ctrl Shift P  or cmd on Mac   select  Change Language Mode  and there it is   But I still can t find a way to make VS Code recognized files with specific extension as some certain language

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This works for me        files associations       bitesize    yaml

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I have followed a different approach to solve pretty much the same problem  in my case  I made a new extension that adds PHP syntax highlighting support for Drupal-specific files  such as  module and  inc   https   github com mastazi VS-code-drupal  As you can see in the code  I created a new extension rather than modifying the existing PHP extension  Obviously I declare a dependency on the PHP extension in the Drupal extension   The advantage of doing it this way is that if there is an update to the PHP extension  my custom support for Drupal doesn t get lost in the update process

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In Visual Studio Code  you can add persistent file associations for language highlighting to your settings json file like this      Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings      some setting   custom value            files associations            thor    ruby          jsx    javascript        Jenkinsfile     groovy          You can use Ctrl Shift p and then type settings JSON  Choose Preferences  Open Settings  JSON  to open your settings json   The Files  Associations feature was first introduced in Visual Studio Code version 1 0  March 2016   Check the available wildcard patterns in the release notes and the known language strings in the documentation

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Following the steps on  https   code visualstudio com docs customization colorizer  common-questions worked well for me      To extend an existing colorizer  you would create a simple   package json in a new folder under  vscode extensions and provide the   extensionDependencies attribute specifying the customization you want   to add to  In the example below  an extension  mmd is added to the   markdown colorizer  Note that not only must the extensionDependency   name match the customization but also the language id must match the   language id of the colorizer you are extending           name    MyMarkdown        version    0 0 1        engines              vscode    0 10 x              publisher    none        extensionDependencies              markdown              contributes              languages                   id    markdown                aliases     mmd                 extensions      mmd

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This  for example  will make files ending in  variables and  overrides being treated just like any other LESS file  In terms of code coloring  in terms of  auto  formatting  Define in user settings or project settings  as you like      Semantic UI uses these weird extensions  in case you wonder

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