Do you mean, that emacs supports step-by-step debugging for Perl, or it is your own chortcut/copy-pasto circuit?
In case your technique is supported for emacs, then it is a thing that Vim can not do, but emacsers easily do; am I right? What other languages also supported?
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it is a thing that Vim can not do, but emacsers easily do; am I right?
No. Vim can embed Perl, Python and Ruby. You can do anything with Vim that you can do with Emacs.
Makeshifts last the longest.
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Actually I know that vim can embed perl. More to that, I, personally, write a number of vim scripts with perl, and found this technology extremely powerfull.
To say, I saw how someone implements in VIM script a bubble-sort, to save people from feeding lines to 'sort' external program (it is not always available).
Needless to say, this is just one line in Perl.
I do SGML stuff using Perl from inside VIM scripts, among other things.
But VIM probably do not allow step-by-step debugging like Emacs, due to its intention to be compact and not part of OS.
I saw somewhere that "emacs is a good OS but lacks editing capabilities"
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You are behind the times. Vim has been able to embed Perl, Python and Ruby for a while. There's a Vim plugin using the Perl interpreter to turn Vim into an IRC client, f.ex. One of my pet projects uses the Perl interpreter and Gtk2 to add some minor IDE-ish features to gvim/gtk+.
Makeshifts last the longest.
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