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 ## Syntaxes
 
+- Associate `_vimrc` and `_gvimrc` files with the `VimL` syntax. See #2002
 - Associate `poetry.lock` files with the `TOML` syntax. See #2049
 
 ## Themes
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-Subproject commit c91fe3ab027e60fa42330b2c0143880514ec65ed
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