note zakb <p><em>Update:</em> [gmax] says it works with colons, and it works for me; in fact, it works either way (with colons / without).</p> <p><em>Update2:</em>The reason it fails for some is because recent versions of syntax/perl.vim check to see if b:current_syntax is defined, and if so exit.</p> <p>You need to put <code>unlet b:current_syntax</code> before the <code>syntax include</code> line.</p> <br><br> <strike><p>I think the reason it's not working for some people is hat the syntax lines in step 3 should not be prefixed by colons ':'.</p> <p>Change:</p> <code>" add Perl extensions :syntax include @Perl syntax/perl.vim :syntax region htmlPerl start="< code >" end="< /code >" contains=@Perl keepend " remove spaces around code tags ! let b:current_syntax = "html" syntax region PMlink start="\[" end ="\]"</code> <p>To:</p> <code>" add Perl extensions syntax include @Perl syntax/perl.vim syntax region htmlPerl start="< code >" end="< /code >" contains=@Perl keepend " remove spaces around code tags ! let b:current_syntax = "html" syntax region PMlink start="\[" end ="\]"</code> <p>Not forgetting, of course, to remove the spaces.</p> </strike> 270014 270014