What language option should I use in Notepad++ with my windows host file for readability?

Question

Maybe this is a silly question, but today I was working in my hosts file (C:\windows\system32\drivers\hosts) in notepad++ and would like to use the language formatting.

For example, the first line appears to be a comment

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.

What language do I choose to view the file?

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Answer: Perl formatting was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

The hosts file is not written in any programming language. It's simply plain text in a format easily parseable by certain system and network applications. Besides, anyone can come up with a parser that treats text delimited by # as comment lines.

(And in case you didn't get the hint, choose the option that I highlighted in bold.)