Before: augroup TestFiletypeGroup autocmd! autocmd BufEnter,BufRead *.x setf xfiletype autocmd BufEnter,BufRead *.y set filetype=yfiletype autocmd BufEnter,BufRead *.z setlocal filetype=zfiletype autocmd BufEnter,BufRead *.jsx set filetype=javascript.jsx augroup END After: augroup TestFiletypeGroup autocmd! augroup END augroup! TestFiletypeGroup Execute(ALE should guess file extensions appropriately): " The whole string should be used, if there's a match. AssertEqual '.jsx', ale#filetypes#GuessExtension('javascript.jsx') " The first part should be used. AssertEqual '.x', ale#filetypes#GuessExtension('xfiletype.yfiletype')