Perl Vim Plugin

Make Vim as Your Perl IDE Using perl-support.vim Plugin

by Ramesh Natarajan on January 5, 2009

Perl Vim LogoThis is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy.

This article is part of the ongoing Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks Series. As a programmer, you may do lot of repetitive tasks while coding such as:

  • Adding file header
  • Adding function/frame comment
  • Including default code snippet
  • Performing syntax check
  • Reading documentation about a function
  • Converting a code block to comment, and vice versa

The Perl-Support Vim Plugin – Perl-IDE offers easiest way to do all of the above, saving lot of time and keystrokes.

The plugin was written by Fritz Mehner, who explains the purpose of the plugin as: “Write and run Perl-scripts using menus and hot keys”.

This article explains how to install the plugin in 3 easy steps and 7 powerful features of the plugin.
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