[krichman]

I love Vim so much but I sure wish it had a proper scripting language without requiring me to recompile the whole binary to get partial functionality.

Has anyone used Vile? I tried to compile it once and it looked to be quite onerous to fix all of Clang's whinging. Evil?

[jlgreco]

I think evil mode in emacs is probably the best bet. However I've messed around with elisp a bit in the past though and I can't say I am thrilled enough with it to make the jump. I wish one of the projects to get Emacs going with a scheme would get off the ground...

If mzscheme/racket scripting support for Vim were given the love that python support is getting instead, that would please me immensely. It seems nobody is using that though.

[adiM]

One can use Python, Lua, Ruby, and a bunch of other programming languages to write VIM scripts. At least on ArchLinux, the vim binary comes with support enabled for these scripting languages.