Vscode: Allow to set a file association for files with no extension

[rightaway]

{
    "files.associations": {
        "*": "mydefaulttype"
    }
}

This changes the file association for absolutely all files. Should be possible to set a file association only for files that have no extension. So it would match somefilename but not somefilename.txt and not even .somefilename.

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[bpasero]

@rightaway does it not work when you set:

{
    "files.associations": {
        "somefilename": "mydefaulttype"
    }
}

[rightaway]

Yes, that works fine on the files named exactly somefilename. But can't figure out any way to set a default file type for files with no extension to work.

[Frankstar]

still open?

[HyiouBear]

Is it not possible to have a special syntax instead of that "*" which actually matches every extensions?

[stickycode]

/[^.]+/ maybe allow regular expressions?

Or how about reading the header, shell scripts often don't have an extension but they do have a header e.g. #!/bin/sh or #!/usr/bin/env bash

[sam-rad]

According to VSCode Programming Languages Documentation the glob pattern should be supported, right?

But I wonder why these don't work:

"files.associations": {
  "**/!(*.*)": "markdown",
  "**/+([^.])": "markdown"
}

You can test them on Digital Ocean | Glob Tool

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