use Perl

• Sweet! (Score:1)

  by stu42j (6348)

  Hey, that's pretty sweet. Going in my .vimrc.
• Perl specific remapping (Score:1)

  by baest (7529)

  If filetype plugin is turned on this also works:

  autocmd FileType perl :noremap K :!perldoc <cword> <bar><bar> perldoc -f <cword><cr>

  And then K should still work as it did before when working with non-perl sources
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    Nice point! I do have the filetype plugin enabled. Thanks :)

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• perl-support.vim (Score:1)

  by sigzero (5768)

  I tend to use the plugin in the subject. It has that integrated (\rp) as well as a lot of other things.
  
  http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=556 [sourceforge.net]
• The canonical way to do this (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  autocmd FileType perl setlocal keywordprg=perldoc

  If the perldoc -f || perldoc behaviour matters, the preferrable way to do it is to plug a shell script that works that way into keywordprg, which offers the bonus that you will have it available on the s
• collecting such tricks? (Score:2)

  by gabor (1626)

  I wish there was a wiki with lots of tricks for the vi user Perl developers:

  As a start I added this one to the perl5 wiki on TPF [perlfoundation.org]

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• what about module name (Score:1)

  by raptor (3109)

  is there a way to use something else instead of "cword", so that this work on modules i.e.
  
  Ala::Bala
  
  (two colons)
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147)

    autocmd FileType perl setlocal iskeyword+=:

    Then vim will consider colons word characters for the purposes of cword.
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Ovid (2709)

      Oh, I have something analogous to that embedded in my vim stuff. I stole that trick from Damian.

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    • Re: (Score:1)

      by raptor (3109)

      nice, thank you