I have a file in PyCharm and its used to be just a .txt
file.
Now I wanted to use .rst
(reStructuredText).
I know that when I open a file without an ending for the first time PyCharm asks me what kind of file it is and how the syntax should therefore be interpreted.
Can i open up that dialog again somehow, or can I change the association in some other way?
Actually, @CrazyCoder is right: If you accidentally mis-labeled the file, PyCharm remembers it and sets a "pattern" for the new file based on the name.
So go to Settings
| Editor
| File Types
, find the type you accidentally mislabeled and remove it from the "Registered Patterns" list.
For example, I mislabed "osm.py" as text file, so under "Text files" I have:
*.bat
*.cgi
.
.
.
osm.py
Remove it and you get your py file colors back! You can also register a file association where there is no extension. By default this is associated as "Text file".
More on File Types.