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I'm not a text editor. But anyway, would you call a shell script that invokes
python.exe $1
a Python IDE? Why would you? Vim isn't designed to facilitate the use of vimscript, vimscript is just an extensibility feature of Vim.Vim is designed to edit code, by the people who were doing it back in the 70s and all of its features are there to enable better, faster, and more efficient editing.
It has scripts for the sake of those scripts enabling integrated developer features. Because they're part of vim they're in the environment and the program is used predominantly for development.
To edit text files. It doesn't matter if it's code, configuration files, or plaintext. There are no interpreters, no compilers, no debuggers, nothing designed to support any particular framework or language or workflow. All of that is possible to add through the extensibility features.
https://vim.org/
-- https://vimhelp.org/intro.txt.html#intro.txt
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Those features aren't enabled nor integrated. They're added to Vim at its extensibility points. Baseline vim doesn't have them.
i don't care if vim is an text editor or ide but i just wanted to ask if they even had debugger back when vim was created ?