Thanks :)

What I would like to do is access the Perl interpreter from within vim. With ruby, one can use the rubyfile command. From vim's command mode, you could type :rubyfile example.rb to execute a ruby script. But how would you do this with Perl?

I've got rather limited experience in this area, but maybe :help perldo will help you. I guess you'll need to have Vim compiled with perl support.

Leonid Mamtchenkov aka TVSET

Thanks, but perldo is a range command, so that won't work.

:perl do "filename.pl"

:perl lets you do arbitrary expressions.
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au BufWritePost *.pl,*.pm !perl -c %
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Every time you save a .pl or .pm file, it executes perl -c and shows you the output.

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naChoZ

Better would probably be something like:

au BufWritePost *.pl,*.pm !perl -wcIlib %
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Warnings are important. -Ilib is probably also important, but maybe only I do editing in the root directory of my projects.

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1. Does it work?
2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?