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This is the biggest meta-shortcoming of vim: the fact that it doesn't come with a built-in programming language. This forces extension authors to bring their own, with the expected consequences.

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It has vimscript, but vimscript is at best emacs-lisp's inbred nephew who is just as old but huffs glue and has sex with chickens.

Actually, you can also use mzscheme, perl, python, ruby, and lua to script vim.

Indeed, but that's what the grandparent is saying—you need to bring your own language to the party.

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