Dear Monks

Being a lazy programmer I noticed something interesting: perl syntax checking with Vim. What Vim does is check your perl syntax at the moment you try to save it.
Anyway, I assume that almost all vi-perlmonks use this :) so I hope someone can can show me the path ?

This is what I've tried:
I've added to ~/.vimrc

filetype plugin on
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I've created the plugin (~/.vim/perl_synwrite.vim) (code)
Finally I create the file ~/.vim/ftplugin and added

~/.vim/perl_synwrite.vim
[download]

(I've used the absolute path instead of the ~ as well!)
According to the documentation I should now be able to use the :W option that should do the syntax check and save the file
However, when I try this I get the following message from Vim

E492: Not an editor command: W
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Any suggestions what goes wrong here ?

Thanks a lot
LuCa

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