:help design-not
VIM IS... NOT                        *design-not*

- Vim is not a shell or an Operating System.  You will not be able to 
+run a
  shell inside Vim or use it to control a debugger.  This should work 
+the
  other way around: Use Vim as a component from a shell or in an IDE.
  A satirical way to say this: "Unlike Emacs, Vim does not attempt to 
+include
  everything but the kitchen sink, but some people say that you can cl
+ean one
  with it.  ;-)"
- Vim is not a fancy GUI editor that tries to look nice at the cost of
  being less consistent over all platforms.  But functional GUI featur
+es are
  welcomed.

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And in perlfaq3:
Where can I get Perl macros for vi?

For a complete version of Tom Christiansen's vi configuration file, se
+e http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/toms.exrc
+.gz, the standard benchmark file for vi
emulators. This runs best with nvi, the current version of vi out of B
+erkeley, which incidentally can be built with an embedded Perl interp
+reter -- see
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/misc.

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So I guess your best shoot will be to try nvi and check if it does what you want. Good luck.

/brother t0mas

In reply to Re: vim and perl by t0mas
in thread vim and perl by chorg

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