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Then what is it for exactly? Vim has a bad enough reputation as being obtuse and antique. Sites like this just reinforce that perception.

• bradleyland 14y ago
  No, the fact that you're being obtuse is giving you a bad reputation. Vim is a very powerful and flexible editor. The site you linked to os titled Learn Vim script The Hard Way. Vimscript is not Vim, it is the scripting language used to customize Vim. Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not necessarily defending Vim here. The learning curve is steep, but the "evidence" you're providing here only illustrates that you can't spot differences in basic nouns (Vim versus Vimscript). This is a challenge that any reasonably skilled problem solver would have resolved with one Google query and 5 minutes of reading.