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 :)
• 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 shell as well. If you really must, though, you can do it as a less than pretty one-liner:

  autocmd FileType perl setlocal keywordprg=sh\ -c\ 'perldoc\ -f\ \$1\ \|\|\ perldoc\ \$1'\ --
• 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]

  --
  

  • Test automation using Perl [szabgab.com]
• 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.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by raptor (3109)

      nice, thank you