Add vimscript and vim script as names of vim's scripting language

[jmdevin]

2752 was opened a while ago; long ago enough that it seemingly was forgotten in #3278. I'm wondering if it would now be possible to add both vimscript and vim script as names for vim's language?

[Alhadis]

Where are you seeing the old name? VimL was renamed to Vim script in #3278.

[jmdevin]

Whoops, I only saw that using 'vimscript' in a fenced code blocks doesn't work; after I found the issue I clicked through and read the repo as it existed at the time.

Would it still be possible to add vimscript as an alias, so it works without the space?

[Alhadis]

Would it still be possible to add vimscript as an alias, so it works without the space?

It actually doesn't work with a space. 😁 Anything after the first token in a fenced code-block tag is ignored, so ```vim script is effectively the same as writing ```vim instead, which is what's actually enabling the highlighting.

NB: Any time a space is used in a language name, you can substitute it with a dash wherever a lowercased, "slugified" version of a language identifier is expected (fenced code-blocks, language keyword searches, etc):

" Fuck spaces
set noexpandtab
set tabstop=4 softtabstop=0 shiftwidth=4

[jmdevin]

I'm certainly learning more about this then I thought I would.

" Fuck spaces

Indeed.