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# Coerce The Current Filetype

If Vim doesn't recognize the filetype of the currently edited file, I can tell Vim what filetype to use. Consider, for instance, that I have a draft of a markdown file with the name, `documentation.md.draft`. Vim will not recognize this as a markdown file and will, thus, not apply markdown syntax highlighting to that file. I can easily tell Vim to treat this as a markdown file by setting its filetype:

```
:set filetype=markdown
```

Markdown syntax highlighting and other relevant options will now be applied to the current buffer.

See `:h filetype` for more details.