---
title: Setting up your editor
description: Instructions for configuring linting and syntax highlighting
author: Rich Harris
authorURL: https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris
draft: true
---

*Coming soon* This post will walk you through setting up your editor so that recognises Svelte files:

* eslint-plugin-svelte3
* svelte-vscode
* associating .svelte files with HTML in VSCode, Sublime, etc.

## Atom

To treat `.svelte` files as HTML, install the *file-types* package which enables such custom mappings:

```bash
apm install file-types
```

From the toolbar, open Edit → Config... and add the following two lines to your root (`"*"`) section:

```cson
"*":
  core:
    …
  "file-types":
    "*.svelte": "text.html.basic"
```

## Vim/Neovim

To treat all `*.svelte` files as HTML, add the following line to your `init.vim`:

```bash
au! BufNewFile,BufRead *.svelte set ft=html
```

To temporarily turn on HTML syntax highlighting for the current buffer, use:

```bash
:set ft=html
```

To set the filetype for a single file, use a [modeline](https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Modeline_magic):

```bash
<!-- vim: set ft=html :-->
```