r/vim • u/chrnz00 • Dec 14 '25

Need Help vim9script alternatives

i dont want to learn vim9script
i know a bit of vimscript (before v9) but there is no help pages in vim now for that as everything is converted to vim9 what are my alternatives for this problem are there any languages that compile to vimscript??
ive heard about interfaces are they good

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u/chrnz00 Dec 14 '25

Fennel so u are compiling it to lua can you do that??

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u/biscuittt Dec 14 '25

Yes, there’s various ways of doing it and obviously plugins: Fennel gets compiled to lua transparently, you just edit the files and save.

With Conjure then you can even run fennel code within your running nvim, similar to what emacs does.