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+See the [contribution guidelines for pathogen.vim](https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.markdown).
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   battle tested.  It's probably not (yet) as good as [DetectIndent][].
   Let me know what it fails on for you.
 
-## Contributing
-
-See the contribution guidelines for
-[pathogen.vim](https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen#readme).
-
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