There's an unprotected check of one of the configuration variables. It's only triggered when you set ft=perl from .vimrc because the plugin hasn't been loaded yet.
You shouldn't do that. Let the ftplugin system detect your files as Perl files, or if they have non-standard extensions (something other than .pl/.perl) set up an autocmd, e.g.: au BufNewFile,BufRead *.not-perl setf perl Patch below. BCC:'ed Dr. Fritz Mehner (maintainer) Pushed to http://github.com/benizi/perl-support.vim ================================================== commit message Most tests of global variables in conditionals have the form: if exists("g:variable") && g:variable == 'somevalue' This one didn't, and caused errors when unitialized. --- ftplugin/perl.vim | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/ftplugin/perl.vim b/ftplugin/perl.vim index e34accc..82f949d 100644 --- a/ftplugin/perl.vim +++ b/ftplugin/perl.vim @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ endif " Generate (possibly exuberant) Ctags style tags for Perl sourcecode. " Controlled by g:Perl_PerlTags, enabled by default. " ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -if has('perl') && g:Perl_PerlTags == 'enabled' +if has('perl') && ( exists("g:Perl_PerlTags") && g:Perl_PerlTags == 'enabled' ) let g:Perl_PerlTagsTempfile = tempname() if getfsize( expand('%') ) > 0 call Perl_do_tags( expand('%'), g:Perl_PerlTagsTempfile ) -- 1.7.3.1 -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
