You can write Vim plugins in other languages as well.

DigitalJack · on Nov 8, 2017

Technically true, but practically worthless.

Python example:

  import vim

  # Show current directory in Vim
  cwd = vim.eval('getcwd()')
  cmd.command(':Explore %s | redraw' % cwd)

Ref: https://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-...

camgunz · on Nov 8, 2017

This is a little unkind. Vim has actual APIs for most things you'd want to do. Ex: https://github.com/camgunz/u300Blog/blob/master/u3b.vim#L307

It's not complete coverage, but it's not "the API is just a thin Python wrapper around Vim commands as strings" as your comments suggest.

DigitalJack · on Nov 8, 2017

It looks to me like more than half of that is a thin wrapper around strings.

I'm not trying to be mean or mislead. I've used vim for decades, and emacs too for that matter. My favorite editors by far.

camgunz · on Nov 8, 2017

Haha yeah I'm not trying to be shitty with you.

Vim gives you buffer, window, cursor and range, plus eval and command. The eval/command stuff is a "shim", insofar as you have to wrap them yourself if you want more programmatic access; like you'd have to do `def getcwd(): vim.eval('getcwd()')` But for a lot of what you want to do, you're messing with buffer/window/cursor. I wouldn't call it a full-featured scripting API, and certainly Neovim's is better, but your posts suggested all the scripting API was was just an entry point to ex commands. There's a lot more than that, to the extent that it covers most of what you want to do.