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With facts in hand, no, vim is not a text manipulation language. vim script is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_script

I never referred to vim script. I referred to vim. To quote you, "you obviously have no clue" that vim is an editor, which contains vim script.

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Dude. He's right.

Vim is clunky, I'll admit it, but it is a text-manipulation language separate from vim script.

Vim-the-language looks like this:

  ci)char* arg<ESC>/func<CR>V}:s/param/arg/g<CR>

That's kinda looks like what I have to type in to go to the end of a single line in Vim. ;-)

Actually, the vim language utilizes regular expressions, so end of a single line is $ while ^ is the beginning of the line. Just like the regex: "/^[0-9]*$"

Vim is usually fairly efficient in what it makes you type, just not always as consistent as I'd like.

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