Syntax highlighting for fstab

[awebeer256]

Description of the problem or steps to reproduce

Micro appears to have no syntax highlighting for fstab files. Meanwhile, Nano at least highlights comments in them.

Specifications

Commit hash: 225927b
OS: Fedora 38
Terminal: Konsole

[JoeKar]

A possible solution could be to represent it with the ini filetype by adding it to runtime/syntax/ini.yaml.
But at the end this would mean adding dozens of files without any extensions to the ini filetype.

Maybe nano already found a good compromise by using a default syntax definition in case no other syntax highlighting fits.
Vim on the other hand respects the fstab with a dedicated definition, but this maybe goes a bit too far.

Currently I suggest to do it more or less the same as nano does, but the micro way.

[JoeKar]

Currently I suggest to do it more or less the same as nano does, but the micro way.

I'm currently working on a basic default/fallback highlighting. Maybe it will fit the needs.

[zyedidia]

Do fstab files not have an extension?

[JoeKar]

Nope, they don't.
A longer discussion in #2933 is ongoing what's needed or not in the default.yaml.

I would appreciate your opinion too. :)

[JoeKar]

Currently I'm unsure if closing this ticket with #2933 was a good decision, since the initial issue isn't really fixed. We now only have a default fallback doing some minimal highlighting for plain text.
Would this fit your needs...

{
    "/etc/*": {
        "filetype": "ini"
    },
    [...]
}

...in ~/.config/micro/settings.json?