perlprogrammer: For questions like these, I suggest you start by using Super Search to search for nodes with vim in the title. Here are some I just found that might be useful to you:
The last node above was used by TheDamian as part of his research to create Appendix C (Editor Configurations) in his highly recommended book Perl Best Practices.
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Hi perlprogrammer.
I have used gvim on our WinXP machine before. It's a powerful editor but I'm not averse to using emacs or xemacs. If the machine I'm using doesn't have either editor installed, opening notepad or the ancient DOS command 'edit' will suffice. <grin>
~Katie
Edit: Added relevant links mentioned in the post.
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I use vi(m) for everything text. Not just perl. But it's a great editor to be sure.
However, before asking questions like these, you should hit the super search bar. This has been discussed before (and more than once at that).
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Vim/gVim supports Perl in several layers. The basic one comes "out of the box" and is an excellent (imo) syntax highlighter. Usually that's enough. It will also identify any file that has a shebang call with /perl. (although this feature may be lacking)
Higher layer of working with Vim/Perl is to modify Vim configuration files for making the editor even more Perl-friendly.
The highest level is actually compiling Vim with Perl support and using the Perl API .
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I haven't used the specific gvim perl-support plugin, but based on it's documentation, and the screen shots it looks very nice. I typically use plain vim, without the gui, for nearly all my editing so I don't find much use in integrated development environments with menus and button bars. The Perl support in plain vim is essentially the syntax file for highlighting, much as it is for any language. But the great thing about vim is that it has all the great features of vi with many extras, most of which revolve around functionality that make it a nice programmer's editor. Those are all available in gvim as well, so even without the perl-support pluging, gvim would make a very nice environment for programming, debugging and maintaining Perl code.
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