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# What Is On The Runtime Path?

All of the plugins, syntax highlighting, language-specific indentation that extend the default behavior of Vim are on the runtime path. If something isn't on Vim's runtime path, then Vim won't know about and as a result will not load it at *runtime*.

How do we see what is on the runtime path?

The `rtp` option is the shorthand for `runtimepath`. Calling `set` on either of these will show us the list of runtime paths, or at least some of them.

```
:set rtp
```

This will generally be a truncated list if you have a lot of plugins. To be sure you are seeing all of them, use `echo` instead.

```
:echo &rtp
```

See `:h rtp` for more details.

h/t Chris Erin