perl + vim (notes)

On the thousand-oaks.pm email list, we had a topic this morning on ideas for tonight's meeting, so I told them about what we'll be doing for the Dec 2 LA.pm topic -- an interactive night of Vim + perl tips : improving the editor experience, improving the coding experience.

My reply got pretty long, so I'm going to pull the notes out here.

The idea: an interactive night of VIM+perl tips. Bring your vimrc's and links to your favorite modules and plugins. Perl stuff that makes VIM better, VIM stuff than makes editing perl better. A lot of my stuff is circa VI, but it is still sweet.

Tips I'll bring:

• setting up vim to use quicklist / make functions on your perl. :make
• integrating perltidy
• my perltidyrc
• ctags integration
• keyword completion
• a couple of vim plugins
• examples of vimdiff and svn+vimdiff integration
• splitting windows
• related: zsh (the one true shell(tm)) integration.

Stuff I'd love to hear about:

• using embedded perl in vim. perldo and friends.
• omnicompletion
• Your Favorite file browser
• • nerd tree
• Your Favorite vim plugins
• Info about the Vim:: modules on CPAN.
  • ctag/vimtag generators:
    • Vim::Complete (0.03) vs ctags for omni completion
    • Vim::Tag (0.02) [(same author as Vim::Complete, possible shell integration)
    • Perl::Tags (0.26)
  • Vim::Snippet::Converter + snippetsEmu (emulate TextMate snippets)
  • Pod::Simple::Vim + PERLDOC2 --> convert POD for viewing in vim, with syntax highlighting.? used by perldoc2 plugin.
  • App::EditorTools / App::EditorTools::VIM / PPIx::EditorTools::* to leverage some of the PADRE stuff in vim.
  • Devel::PerlySense Devel::PerlySense::Editor::VIM perly_sense (not really supported, really aimed at emacs. Can we fix this?)
  • VI::Quickfix ( cute. Add this to your module/app and the perl compile errors will get written to the vim quickfix file, like as if you'd run :make from inside vim)
  • Vroom::Vroom -- beppu and tommy showed me this, it's awesome. "powerpoint in vim -- without all the sucky powerpoint stuff).
  • Vim::Snippet::Completion (no docs, what does this do?)
• updated VIM perl syntax highlighting description, now maintained by petdance/andy lester. announce git issue-tracker group
• using ACK and using it from inside vim(Tommy, examples please)
• perlciritc integration via perlchecker.vim
• iskeyword settings ( set iskeyword+=: , etc)
• perl-support.vim -- seriously, does anyone use this? I'm not sure I see how it would be helpful. If you do, I'd love a visit from the clue-train.

I only got as far as searching VIM:: on cpan. Next up, mining the perlmonks (and updating, of course) -- the vim info there is old, and some of it is wrong (meaning of a couple flags were flipped between vim6 and vim7).