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by dmix 3285 days ago
It's not just Github, the Vim filetype is "viml". It's a standard name for the language. Most likely meaning Vim Language.
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majewsky 3285 days ago
No, it's not. The filetype is "vim", and the filetype detection code explicitly calls it "Vim script": https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/4670490673ed98502a09b74fbabe...
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dmix 3285 days ago
You're right, apologies, I was thinking of the Syntastic/Neomake plugin which both use "VimL" as an identifer, which I had just set up this past weekend and I mistook that as the Vim filetype identifier.

Regardless Wikipedia says:

> Vim script (also called vimscript or VimL) is the scripting language built into Vim.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Vim_(text_editor)#/Vim_script

It's also colloquially referred to VimL across the web.

For those looking for an answer, the 3rd result from googling "VimL" is a question on StackOverflow "Why does VimL suck?" which does a good job of answering my question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/1bf672/why_does_viml_s...

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