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doc: fix some typos in nvim docs #3280

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Reviewed-by: Michael Reed <Pyrohh@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -29,19 +29,19 @@ clipboard functions account for more than 1k lines of C source code (and that
is just on ui.c), all to peform two tasks that are now accomplished with
simple shell commands such as xclip or pbcopy/pbpaste.
The other example is Python scripting support: Vim has three files dedicated
to embed the Python interpreter: if_python.c, if_python3.c and if_py_both.h.
The other example is Python scripting support: Vim has three files dedicated to
embedding the Python interpreter: if_python.c, if_python3.c and if_py_both.h.
Together these files sum about 9.5k lines of C source code. On Nvim, Python
scripting is performed by an external host process that is running 2k sloc
Python program.
In a perfect world, we would implement Python and clipboard integration in
pure vimscript and without touching the C code. Unfortunately we can't achieve
these goals without severly compromising backwards compatibility with Vim.
Thats where providers comes to rescue.
these goals without severely compromising backwards compatibility with Vim.
That's where providers come to the rescue.
In essence, this infrastructure a simple framework that simplifies the task of
calling vimscript from C code, making it simpler to rewrite C functions that
In essence, this infrastructure is a simple framework that simplifies the task
of calling vimscript from C code, making it simpler to rewrite C functions that
interact with external systems in pure vimscript. It is composed of two
functions in eval.c: