Check out Kakoune[1] for a different take on an editor’s scripting language. It offloads as much as possible to existing Unix tools such as bash, sort, fmt, etc. It uses a clever system of string substitutions that’s a bit unintuitive at first, but not too difficult to grasp quickly. I spent two weeks trying to fix a bug in a Vim plugin that ended up being a 3 line change. After that I felt like I barely understood just a small section of vimscript.
I ended up switching to Kakoune after trying it for a bit because I realized that in the two weeks of me exploring it I had entirely understood it’s “scripting language”, or at the very least understood how to use the onboard docs to write any plugin I wanted to.
I ended up switching to Kakoune after trying it for a bit because I realized that in the two weeks of me exploring it I had entirely understood it’s “scripting language”, or at the very least understood how to use the onboard docs to write any plugin I wanted to.
[1]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune