Rename "Vim Script" to "Vim script" - #8124
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For reference, this was raised two years ago in the community discussions, Christian Brabandt, a maintainer of the Vim organization and repository, |
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The Vim project spells it with a lowercase "s". Vim itself was made consistent in patch 8.0.0360, after Bram Moolenaar stated that "Vim script" is the short form. The language_id is unchanged, and both the old and the new name lowercase to "vim script", so existing aliases keep working.
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Could you please re-run the workflow? |
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The Vim project spells the language name "Vim script", with a lowercase "s".
Bram Moolenaar stated this on vim_dev:
https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/3Z5yM8KER2w/m/wAqws0QSEAAJ
Vim itself was made consistent in patch 8.0.0360 and similar patches. In the current Vim
documentation "Vim script" appears 348 times and "Vim Script" once, in a
quoted patch title.
vim/vim@b544f3c
vim/vim@a420547
language_idis unchanged, and both the old and the new name lowercase to"vim script", so the existing aliases keep working.
In
vendor/README.mdthe entry moves belowVim Snippet: the generated listis sorted byte-wise, so a lowercase "s" now sorts after "Snippet".
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