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    copied!<p>I'm going through my vim dotfiles to tidy them up. I've noticed that through time I've added various filetype specific settings in various inconsistent ways. Let's suppose I'm customizing for Python:</p> <ul> <li><p><code>au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py (do something)</code>. I don't like this because some Python files might not have the .py termination. </p></li> <li><p><code>au FileType python (do something)</code>. This seems a better option because it doesn't depend on the file having the .py termination. The drawback is that Vim doesn't know about some filetypes. I can make Vim recognize additional filetypes, but I also have various inconsistent ways of doing it: a <code>.vim/filetype.vim</code> file, another in <code>.vim/after/filetype.vim</code> and various <code>set filetype</code> commands in <code>.vimrc</code>.</p></li> <li><p>Add a <code>.vim/ftplugin/python.vim</code> file with filetype specific settings. I understand the <code>$VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/python.vim</code> can override whatever settings I make here. One problem is that I'm not sure how this interacts with <code>.vim/filetype.vim</code> and <code>.vim/after/filetype.vim</code>.</p></li> <li><p>Add a <code>.vim/after/ftplugin/python.vim</code>. I understand that this is loaded after <code>$VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/python.vim</code> so it can overwrite settings from there. As in the previous method I'm not sure how it interacts with the <code>filetype.vim</code> files.</p></li> </ul> <p>So I have at least four ways of doing this, not mentioning syntax files and filetype-specific plugins. It seems to me the best way to do this is to put my filetype specific settings in <code>after/ftplugin</code> so they don't get overwritten, and <code>filetypes.vim</code> in <code>after</code> for the same reason.</p> <p>However, before I proceed I'd like to ask if anyone has suggestions about the best way to deal with filetype specific settings.</p>
 

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