mascip,

Not knowing your environment, these suggestion are just guesstimates.

I usually work on *nix, so I opened a XP laptop to verify this will work, and it did. so here goes.

I opened two command windows (cmd.exe) on the XP, ran Vim in one, and executed the edited Perl script in the other. I could edit with Vim and could interact with the running script by just switching windows.

For my *nix environments, I run 5 x-windows by default. 3 x-windows are used for Perl programming:

• #1 for editing the Perl script
• #2 for execution the Perl script
• #3 for checking results of the Perl script, such as log files, etc.

The other 2 windows are used for doing system admin functions as needed. This way I can be interrupted for an emergency, and when things are fixed, I can go back to programming without missing a beat.

This may not be a solution to your problem, but it may help.

Good Luck!

mascip:

My procedure is quite similar to flexvault's: By running in a different window, I can execute the script with a simple Alt+Tab, UpArrow, Enter after each modification. Quite handy. Another window open for perldoc & such is also quite useful...

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

It's what i used to do to, and i appreciated to replace

Alt+Tab - Up - Enter (and Alt+Tab to return to editor)
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by simply

;r
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Especially because before running the script, if there is any compiling error, it automatically opens a new tab and jumps to the first error. And then i have a shortcut to jump to the next compiling error.
If there is no compiling error it just runs the script.

So, if there was a way to keep this feature, without this annoying Vim freeze when executing a script, i would love it.

And i would really like to avoid having to switch to Emacs, right now.

Idea for a possible solution : if there was a terminal out there, which can be given commands through another terminal's commands, then i could "drive" it from Vim. That would do the trick. Is such a set up possible ?

There must be a simple way...

I installed it, i can type

:ConqueTerm perl
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and it opens an empty buffer with "perl" written on the bottom. Then, i can write stuff in the buffer but nothing happens.
If i try instead

:ConqueTerm perl -e "print 'a'"
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it opens the same buffer, with "perl -e" written at the bottom, and still nothing useful happens.

Am i doing something wrong ?

I read the manual, watched videos of people using it, but it just doesn't seem to work on my computer right now.

Running :ConqueTerm perl -de 42 works for me. Moreover, :ConqueTerm perl -E'say "test"' doesn't work, but :ConqueTerm perl -E'say 1; sleep 1; say 2' works.

What's more interesting, running :ConqueTerm perl ~/current/bothunter.pl leaves buffer silent, but :ConqueTerm sh -c 'perl ~/current/bothunter.pl' works. (bothunter.pl is a script which runs for about a minute while scanning one forum for spam robots)

Sorry if my advice was wrong.