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I found an inconsistency in our tags and am unsure how to handle it. We do have the following two tags (with respective usage guidance and number of questions):

  • Question about the command functionality that les the user define new Vim commands. - 94 questions
  • Questions about :command and how the user can define custom commands. - 34 questions

Okay, one is about :command which creates a user-defined command and the other one is about user-defined commands and how they are created. Two ways to describe the same thing, obviously.

What makes this tricky is that - I did not go through all 94 questions - but it seems a fair share of them is using incorrectly. It expresses that there's an Ex command involved somewhere in the question. This, by the way, is how I'd have understood as well.

Are and really the same or should they be disambiguated?

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  • For Ex commands, I'd have expected ex or a command-specific tag, maybe? Also, general confusion arises from the fact that some folks call Normal mode Command mode. Then there's the "just because it's in the question doesn't mean it needs a tag"—tags should be things folks can be experts in, ostensibly
    – D. Ben Knoble Mod
    Commented Jun 8 at 22:59
  • Technically, normal mode commands are "commands" as well which would include commands like / or i. I did miss that last night but, yes, there's [ex-command] as well. Its info is something about the history of ex (I don't get how that would be helpful) but that's easily improved.
    – Friedrich
    Commented Jun 9 at 6:24

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As suggested by D. Ben Knoble in his comment: burninate as it adds no useful information to a post.

Go through all questions and retag them as either or - or just remove it, if it's not essential to the question.

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The tag is to the point while is easily misunderstood.

I'd prefer to have two tags:

  • keep as-is for questions related to user-defined commands.
  • for questions about Ex commands, in general. This seems a bit verbose as everything in Vim is a command but people are using it. There's a demand.

This means we'll have to change the tag's usage guidance and then go through all questions tagged and ...

  • retag to if that was meant
  • not touch anything if it's about command usage (should be true for several if not most questions)
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  • I think command might just need to go—I'm not sure what useful information it provides to an answerer (or question-asker, frankly)
    – D. Ben Knoble Mod
    Commented Jun 8 at 23:00
  • @D.BenKnoble good point. I wrote another answer to that effect to allow the community to vote. Feel free to edit or write a better answer of your own (I'd delete my answer in that case).
    – Friedrich
    Commented Jun 9 at 6:29
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    What you wrote looks great to me
    – D. Ben Knoble Mod
    Commented Jun 9 at 22:50

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