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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
The longer I use Vim, the more ways I find to make my life easier. This tip comes courtesy of Andy Lester's entry in the "Mechanix" blog (http://perlbuzz.com/mechanix/2008/01/vim-tricks-for-perl.html), where he shows a nifty trick for looking up Perl documentation for both functions and modules. I used to have it set up for just the former, but my lookup method is a little fancier - I open a scratch buffer in another window so you can look at both the docs and your code at the same time. So, combining the two results in the following:
autocmd FileType perl nmap K "zyiw<c-W>n:set buftype=nofile<CR>:r!
\perldoc -tf '<c-R>z' 2>/dev/null <bar><bar> perldoc '<c-R>z'<cr>gg
(Yes, the 'escape' slash does go on the second line.)
Now, whenever your cursor is on a perl function or a module name, simply hit 'shift-k' (the standard vi/vim "lookup" key), and you'll get the docs.
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Thomas Adam [thomas at edulinux.homeunix.org]
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:50:25AM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> ``` > autocmd FileType perl nmap K "zyiw<c-W>n:set buftype=nofile<CR>:r! > \perldoc -tf '<c-R>z' 2>/dev/null <bar><bar> perldoc '<c-R>z'<cr>gg > '''
That's useful. Something I used to use at work (but don't now -- I do far too much console stuff) is the following:
http://lug.fh-swf.de/vim/vim-perl/screenshots-en.html
-- Thomas Adam
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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:06:20PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:50:25AM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote: > > ``` > > autocmd FileType perl nmap K "zyiw<c-W>n:set buftype=nofile<CR>:r! > > \perldoc -tf '<c-R>z' 2>/dev/null <bar><bar> perldoc '<c-R>z'<cr>gg > > ''' > > That's useful. Something I used to use at work (but don't now -- I do far > too much console stuff) is the following: > > http://lug.fh-swf.de/vim/vim-perl/screenshots-en.html
My .vimrc covers most of that, actually; pretty amusing, considering that I just put it together as the specific needs came up. It's also rather pleasant to see that I've managed to do a bit better, in places, than a big complex project like that one - e.g., I use a single key to comment and uncomment code, whether it's a single line or a visually-selected block.
One thing I don't have, though, is all that automatic codeblock-generation stuff: AFAIC, anything of that sort is Broken As Designed (BAD), since Perl semantics are not nearly as rigid as the creator of 'perlsupport' seems to think. I'd be spending more time revising the generated bits than it would actually take to write it by hand.
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Faber J. Fedor [faber at linuxnj.com]
On 03/02/08 21:12 -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> My .vimrc covers most of that, actually; pretty amusing, considering > that I just put it together as the specific needs came up. It's also > rather pleasant to see that I've managed to do a bit better, in places, > than a big complex project like that one - e.g., I use a single key to > comment and uncomment code, whether it's a single line or a > visually-selected block.
So? Don't keep us in suspense! Let's see your .vimrc.
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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:03:23PM -0500, Faber Fedor wrote:
> On 03/02/08 21:12 -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote: > > My .vimrc covers most of that, actually; pretty amusing, considering > > that I just put it together as the specific needs came up. It's also > > rather pleasant to see that I've managed to do a bit better, in places, > > than a big complex project like that one - e.g., I use a single key to > > comment and uncomment code, whether it's a single line or a > > visually-selected block. > > So? Don't keep us in suspense! Let's see your .vimrc.
But I like keeping people in suspense, Faber. It often has pleasant
results - like getting you to come down out of the rafters. 
Since you have asked, though, here it is:
http://okopnik.com/temp/vimrc # Temp location; will be available at http://linuxgazette.net/148/misc/tag/vimrc # after 148 comes out
Again, I've chopped out a lot of me-specific stuff - but I've also just spent a bit of time making sure everything is well-commented. Enjoy!
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