yoda54:

You're using perl to automate vim? That just makes my head hurt. Why not just edit the text using standard perl features? I can only assume that there are some vim packages you have installed that you're trying to take advantage of.

Anyway, if you want to automate vim from a perl script, it appears that Rolf already has you covered.

You could also call your perl script from within vim, if that would help things. For example, I frequently call out to the sort command to sort data in a document while in vim. There's no reason you can't call a perl script to process a section of text.

Or even uglier: you could have your perl script open a document in vim, and then tell it to execute a perl script from within vim. That'll certainly help you keep your job "interesting".

...roboticus

In reply to Re: Piping data to vim by roboticus
in thread Piping data to vim by yoda54

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