diff --git a/env b/env
index 1d189dd..c575a21 100644
--- a/env
+++ b/env
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 export SYS=`uname -s | tr A-Z a-z`
 # Set this to a non-zero integer to see startup messages
-export NOISY=20
+export NOISY=0
 
 print_heading -l 1 'Initializing environment'
 
diff --git a/vim/ftdetect/markdown.vim b/vim/ftdetect/markdown.vim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48b2f8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vim/ftdetect/markdown.vim
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.md  set ft=markdown