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Questions about the creation, usage and debugging of filetype plugins.

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How do I position cursor according to filetype (gitcommit)?

And to make it clear, you can't do this by ftplugin, as restoring the cursor position normally works by BufReadPost event, not by FileType event. …
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ftdetect, ftplugin not working as advertised -- what am I missing?

Do not prepend autocmd Set cindent option Do not set syntax option
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How to combine identical ftplugin files?

Just use symlinks. This is the easiest possible solution.
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How to properly set up ftplugin files for working with different filetypes in different wind...

So after your ftplugin was applied it also affects all new buffers as "the new default". Therefore one normally does :setlocal and never :set in ftpligins. …
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Open buffer without loading ftplugins

Remove the plugin. Seriously. "Huge and slow" = "trash bin". If you're brave enough then go and re-implement all required functionality yourself. Remove/rename/comment out ftdetect folder/script (or …
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Where should I put filetype specific options for indentation?

When in doubt look into the standard Vim runtime files. ts sts et sw should be set by after/ftplugin. sta is basically no-op, as you have &sw == &sts anyway. si ai are basically no-op as you have &cindent … And also, in general, there's nothing in setting ai si on if you have any meaningful indent/xyz.vim. cino should probably be set by after/indent, but in this case I'd rather use after/ftplugin to get rid …
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Organize plugins and .vimrc settings for different filetypes using ftplugins?

Create folders ~/.vim/ftplugin/python.vim and ~/.vim/ftplugin/markdown.vim. … For this reason you normally want ~/.vim/after/ftplugin and not ~/.vim/ftplugin. Any mistakes/gotchas in this? …
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