diff --git a/PowerEditor/src/ScintillaComponent/Buffer.cpp b/PowerEditor/src/ScintillaComponent/Buffer.cpp
index d8c11371f..339608dc9 100644
--- a/PowerEditor/src/ScintillaComponent/Buffer.cpp
+++ b/PowerEditor/src/ScintillaComponent/Buffer.cpp
@@ -222,6 +222,8 @@ void Buffer::setFileName(const TCHAR *fn, LangType defaultLang)
 			newLang = L_PYTHON;
 		else if ((OrdinalIgnoreCaseCompareStrings(_fileName, TEXT("Rakefile")) == 0) || (OrdinalIgnoreCaseCompareStrings(_fileName, TEXT("Vagrantfile")) == 0))
 			newLang = L_RUBY;
+		else if ((OrdinalIgnoreCaseCompareStrings(_fileName, TEXT("crontab")) == 0))
+			newLang = L_BASH;
 	}
 
 	updateTimeStamp();