This tip is deprecated for the following reasons:
The official Vim distribution—since at least Vim 6.4—comes with a compiler script so you can type :compiler perl
created 2003 · complexity basic · author Chris Forkin · version 5.7
At one stage I was writing a lot of perl scripts/modules with Vim and found it useful to be able to run the perl syntax-checker (perl -c) from within Vim via the :make command. To be able to do this you'll need to add the following Module (VimCompile.pm) to your @INC.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#$Id: VimCompile.pm,v 1.2 2002/02/16 01:07:03 forkin Exp $
# reformat "perl -c" syntax-check error-/warning-messages for Vim
package VimCompile;
use strict;
sub _die {
my ($msg)=@_;
$msg=~s/^((.* at )((.*) line )([0-9]+)(\.|, near .*))$/$4:$5: $1/mg;
die qq/$msg/;
}
sub _warn {
my ($msg)=@_;
$msg=~s/^((.* at )((.*) line )([0-9]+)(\.|, near .*))$/$4:$5: $1/mg;
warn qq/$msg/;
}
$SIG{'__DIE__'}=\&_die;
$SIG{'__WARN__'}=\&_warn;
# return OK
1;
This Module will reformat the warnings/errors so that Vim can parse them (to allow you to jump to the location/source-code of the error). You will also need to deposit the following (perl.vim) in your ~/.vim/runtime/compiler directory.
" Vim compiler file
" Compiler: perl (output of "die" massaged)
" Maintainer: Chris Forkin, chris@forkin.com
if exists("current_compiler")
finish
endif
let current_compiler = "perl"
" A workable errorformat for "perl -c"
setlocal errorformat=%f:%l:\ %m
" default make
setlocal makeprg=perl\ -MVimCompile\ -c\ %
Comments[]
or have a look at $VIMRUNTIME/tools/efm_perl.pl to use quickfix mode with perl scripts.
- !perl -Wc %
Actually disregard my perl -Wc comment I realise yours does more then simple compiler checks.