diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4e23375
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "files.associations": {
+    "**/xdg/git/config": "properties",
+    "**/xdg/git/attributes": "properties",
+    "**/xdg/git/ignore": "ignore",
+    "**/xdg/npm/npmrc": "properties",
+    "**/xdg/nix/nix.conf": "properties"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/xdg/git/attributes b/xdg/git/attributes
index 6bdc702..a56ef84 100644
--- a/xdg/git/attributes
+++ b/xdg/git/attributes
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# vim: filetype=gitattributes
 # Automatically normalize line endings for all text-based files
 #* text=auto
 # Disabled because of https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/issues/149 :(
diff --git a/xdg/git/config b/xdg/git/config
index 06ebdfe..b06e84a 100644
--- a/xdg/git/config
+++ b/xdg/git/config
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# vim: filetype=gitconfig
 [alias]
 
 	# View abbreviated SHA, description, and history graph of the latest 20 commits
diff --git a/xdg/git/ignore b/xdg/git/ignore
index 476c66e..ae26d4f 100644
--- a/xdg/git/ignore
+++ b/xdg/git/ignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# vim: filetype=gitignore
 .direnv/
 .DS_Store
 **/.claude/settings.local.json
diff --git a/xdg/nix/nix.conf b/xdg/nix/nix.conf
index c7d7291..7f468c5 100644
--- a/xdg/nix/nix.conf
+++ b/xdg/nix/nix.conf
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+# vim: filetype=conf
 experimental-features = nix-command flakes
diff --git a/xdg/npm/npmrc b/xdg/npm/npmrc
index 97b895e..463dbb5 100644
--- a/xdg/npm/npmrc
+++ b/xdg/npm/npmrc
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+; vim: filetype=dosini
 ignore-scripts=true