David Fishburn indicated that: > [has written many plugins in VimL; wants to write on in perl; > looking for perl/vim plugin examples]
The best tip for getting started with perl/vim is in the "Additional Notes" section dated October 29, 2001 23:02 for a tip by Benoit Cerrin: http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=140 For more complex examples of using perl within vim, see: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1082 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1052 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=906 Another thing that might help: 1) Put the following toward the top of you perl file BEGIN {(*STDERR = *STDOUT) || die;} 2) End the perl file with the line __END__ 3) In $vim/ftplugin/perl.vim, use a mapping such as: nmap <buffer> <F5> :w<esc>mwG:r!perl %:p<CR>`. The just hit <F5> and you will see the results of the perl processing. You can go back to where you were using `w. --Suresh
