Talk:Learning the vi editor/Vim/VimL Script language

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[edit] Why "Exim"?

I don't know where the idea that Vim's scripting language was called "Exim" came from. Conventionally on the Vim mailing lists it's been referred to as "Vim script(ing)" or just "VimL"—if you were to call it "Exim" there you'd probably confuse everybody, including Bram, the developer and copyright owner of Vim.

The only references to "exim" in the Vim help files are for the command-line equivalent of invoking "vim -E" (ex mode), and while Vim scripts are interpreted as if you had typed all the commands in ex mode that still doesn't justify arbitrarily naming the scripting language "Exim".

Further confusing the issue, Exim is a mail transfer agent. -- Heptite 20:50, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Since there's been no disagreement (indeed, no discussion at all) on this subject, I went ahead and just moved the subarticle/submodule. -- Heptite (talk) 16:58, 4 February 2008 (UTC)