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The name of the language sometimes known as Vimscript is a topic of debate. Some places use Viml (or is it VimL?), others Vimscript. Does it have an official name, and if it does, what is it and since when is it official?

• SO question on VimL vs Vimscript (~5 years old)
• A recent post mentioning that it has got an official name

A run of :helpgrep \cviml\> leads us to syntax.txt:

 g:vimsyn_noerror Not all error highlighting that syntax/vim.vim does may be correct; VimL is a difficult language to highlight correctly. 

And version7.txt:

Added special python-vars objects also available for python-buffer and python-window. They ease access to VimL variables from Python. 

So it would seem VimL is the official term, yet usr_41.txt, the file that best documents the language, doesn't have any mention of VimL.

The name of the language sometimes known as Vimscript is a topic of debate. Some places use Viml (or is it VimL?), others Vimscript. Does it have an official name, and if it does, what is it and since when is it official?

• SO question on VimL vs Vimscript (~5 years old)
• A recent post mentioning that it has got an official name

A run of :helpgrep \cviml\> leads us to syntax.txt:

 g:vimsyn_noerror Not all error highlighting that syntax/vim.vim does may be correct; VimL is a difficult language to highlight correctly. 

And version7.txt:

Added special python-vars objects also available for python-buffer and python-window. They ease access to VimL variables from Python. 

So it would seem VimL is the official term, yet usr_41.txt, the file that best documents the language, doesn't have any mention of VimL.

The name of the language sometimes known as Vimscript is a topic of debate. Some places use Viml (or is it VimL?), others Vimscript. Does it have an official name, and if it does, what is it and since when is it official?

• SO question on VimL vs Vimscript (~5 years old)
• A recent post mentioning that it has got an official name

A run of :helpgrep \cviml\> leads us to syntax.txt:

 g:vimsyn_noerror Not all error highlighting that syntax/vim.vim does may be correct; VimL is a difficult language to highlight correctly. 

And version7.txt:

Added special python-vars objects also available for python-buffer and python-window. They ease access to VimL variables from Python. 

So it would seem VimL is the official term, yet usr_41.txt, the file that best documents the language, doesn't have any mention of VimL.

The name of the language sometimes known as Vimscript is a topic of debate. Some places use Viml (or is it VimL?), others Vimscript. Does it have an official name, and if it does, what is it and since when is it official?

• SO question on VimL vs Vimscript (~5 years old)
• A recent post mentioning that it has got an official name

A run of :helpgrep \cviml\> leads us to syntax.txt:

 g:vimsyn_noerror Not all error highlighting that syntax/vim.vim does may be correct; VimL is a difficult language to highlight correctly. 

And version7.txt:

Added special python-vars objects also available for python-buffer and python-window. They ease access to VimL variables from Python. 

So it would seem VimL is the official term, yet usr_41.txt, the file that best documents the language, doesn't have any mention of VimL.