Re: Recommended updates to gVim 7.4 on Win 7 for Perl Scripting.

[pmu]

Respected Monks,

While searching for a good Perl Syntax Checking Plugin, I came across "Syntastic".

It can be installed through github like so:

C:\Users\pmu\vim\vimfiles\bundle>git clone https://github.com/scrooloo
+se/syntastic
Cloning into 'syntastic'...
remote: Counting objects: 8105, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4107/4107), done.
remote: Total 8105 (delta 3921), reused 7347 (delta 3214)
Receiving objects: 100% (8105/8105), 2.03 MiB | 117.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3921/3921), done.

Please change the path accordingly to ensure that you are inside the bundle folder while running the "git clone" command

Here's the settings that can be added in your _vimrc (or .vimrc if on Linux/Unix).

"Syntastic Settings 
set statusline+=%#warningmsg#
set statusline+=%{SyntasticStatuslineFlag()}
set statusline+=%*
let g:syntastic_check_on_open=1
let g:syntastic_enable_balloons=1
let g:syntastic_always_populate_loc_list=1
let g:syntastic_echo_current_error=1
let g:syntastic_enable_highlighting=1
let g:syntastic_auto_jump=1
let g:syntastic_auto_loc_list=1
let g:syntastic_loc_list_height=5
let g:syntastic_perl_lib_path= 'C:\my32bitperl\perl\lib\'
let g:syntastic_perl_checkers=['perl' , 'perlcritic']
let g:syntastic_id_checkers=1
"let g:syntastic_python_checkers=['python', 'pyflakes']
"Enable below in case you want the error line highlighted
"highlight SyntasticErrorLine guibg=#6D6968 
"highlight SyntasticWarningLine guibg=#6D6968 
"Sytanstic Error Signs"
"Replace the "→" below with the unicode right arrow (->) Symbol.
"let g:syntastic_error_symbol="→→"
"let g:syntastic_warning_symbol="→"
"End of Syntastic Settings

Please check the path for "g:syntastic_perl_lib_path" variable. In my case its at "C:\my32bitperl\perl\lib\" because I am using Strawberry Perl Portable (5.16.3) which is extracted to the my32bitperl folder.

Hope this helps someone. In case you need my entire _vimrc, I will gladly put it up here.

Updated let g:syntastic_perl_lib_path= 'C:\my32bitperl\perl\lib\'. Replaced " with '.