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If I had to guess, I'd say that you may not have the feature compiled into Vim. Though, obviously, if omnicompletion works for other languages, I'm talking nonsense ;-)

Here's the output from ':version' on the machine I'm in front of now if you want to compare with yours. Mine's had both Perl and Vim compiled from source and I'm pretty certain I 'turned everything up to 11' with Vim.

:version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1 (2007 May 12, compiled May 14 2007 14:22:44)
MacOS X (unix) version
Compiled by johno@johns-g5.local
Huge version with Carbon GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
+arabic +autocmd -balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +c
+indent -clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist 
+cmdline_info +comments +cryptv -cscope +cursorshape +dialog_con_gui +
+diff +digraphs -dnd -ebcdic +emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search
 +farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path +folding -footer +fork() -gettext 
+-hangul_input +iconv +insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap 
+libcall +linebreak +lispindent +listcmds +localmap +menu +mksession +
+modify_fname +mouse -mouseshape +mouse_dec -mouse_gpm -mouse_jsbterm 
+mouse_netterm +mouse_xterm +multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme -netbean
+s_intg -osfiletype +path_extra +perl +postscript +printer +profile 
+python +quickfix +reltime +rightleft +ruby +scrollbind +signs +smarti
+ndent -sniff +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary 
+tag_old_static -tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse +textobjec
+ts +title -toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual 
+visualextra +viminfo +vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writeb
+ackup -X11 -xfontset -xim -xsmp -xterm_clipboard -xterm_save 
   system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
  system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
    user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
    system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/Applications/Vim.app/Contents/Resources/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_MAC -fno-co
+mmon -fpascal-strings -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -mdynamic-no-pic -pi
+p
e -I. -Iproto -DMACOS_X_UNIX -no-cpp-precomp -I/Developer/Headers/Flat
+Carbon  -g -O2    -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing 
+ 
-I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include  -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.
+8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE  -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Pytho
+n
.framework/Versions/2.3/include/python2.3  -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc
+-darwin8.0 
Linking: gcc   -L/usr/local/lib -o Vim -framework Carbon      -lncurse
+s  -liconv   -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib /usr/local/lib/perl5/5
+.
8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -L/usr/loc
+al/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE -lperl -lm -lc -fr
+a
mework Python  -lruby -lobjc
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Actually, I've just had grep through my shell history, and these're the configure options I used:

./configure --with-features=huge --enable-perlinterp --enable-pythonin
+terp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-multibyte
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Hope that helps

In reply to Re^2: Perl omnicompletion available for Vim 7 by john_oshea
in thread Perl omnicompletion available for Vim 7 by john_oshea

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