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vim scripting (Score:2)

by rafael (2125)

I enjoy vim scripting and find it quite powerful [perl.org]. (Plus, it's okay to program in baby-vim and we won't laugh;-) Not all variables (or mappings, or functions) are global in vim, see the documentation, for example at :help script-variable and help script-local. (Assuming you're using vim 6.) I never use the perl interpreter in vim (in fact I never compile my vims with it), because I can always use ! or :! in case of emergency. But again, I feel at home with vim's regexps, because I learned vi (and sed, awk, .
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  by ethan (3163)
  
  I enjoy vim scripting and find it quite powerful [perl.org]. (Plus, it's okay to program in baby-vim and we won't laugh;-)
  
  Ah, just reminds me that it was your webpage where I picked up this little hack to use vim as a perldoc pager (I need it to be able to paste the relevant parts of the Perl documentation into postings for comp.lang.perl.misc;-). Also, your Perl indenter is in regular use.
  
  But again, I feel at home with vim's regexps, because I learned vi (and sed, awk, ...) before perl. (I have to admi

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