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What Now?
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If you've read up to this point and completed all the examples and exercises
you now have a pretty solid grasp of the basics of Vimscript.  Don't worry
though, there's still *plenty* left to learn!

Here are a few ideas of topics to look into if you're hungry for more.

The Command Command
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Many plugins allow the user to interact with them through key mappings and
function calls, but some prefer to create Ex commands instead.  For example, the
[Fugitive][] plugin creates commands like `:Gbrowse` and `:Gdiff` and leaves it up
to the user to decide how to call them.

Commands like this are created with the `:command` command.  Read `:help
user-commands` to learn how to make your own.  You should know enough Vimscript
by now that reading Vim's documentation is sufficient for learning about new
commands.

[Fugitive]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

runtimepath
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In this book I've kind of glossed over how Vim decides which files to load by
saying "just use Pathogen".  Now that you know a decent amount of Vimscript you
can read `:help runtimepath` and check out [Pathogen's source
code][pathogen-src] to find out what's *really* happening under the hood.

[pathogen-src]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/blob/master/autoload/pathogen.vim

Omnicomplete
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Vim offers a number of different ways to complete text (read `:help
ins-completion` for an overview).  Most are fairly simple, but the most powerful
of them is "omnicomplete" which lets you call a custom Vimscript function to
determine completions in just about any way you could possibly think of.

When you're ready to dive into the rabbit hole of omnicompletion you can start
with `:help omnifunc` and `:help coml-omni` and follow the trail from there.

Compiler Support
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Color Schemes
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Vim's Documentation
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Exercises
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Go write a Vim plugin for something you've always wanted!