I often find myself jotting notes in Vim using an empty buffer which in this case has 'no ft' (status line).
I know I could set the filetype with :setfiletype text
but I honestly wonder what that would buy me.
Now my questions is: How can I get help about file type specifics. List known filetypes gives me a listing about known file types but :help text
for example doesn't give me a clue about highlighting, specific key bindings, text objects, ect. for this specific file type.