Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support? Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 09:40:52 -0700 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <20030430083411.GR19711@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20030430094847.GE52453@justpickone.org> <20030430100121.GV19711@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20030502072352.GA31703@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030416 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20030502072352.GA31703@cygbert.vinschen.de> Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:35:26PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> I think what's left out is what exactly does this Perl support do? > > If you dn't know it, you probably don't need it. ;-) You do not know that! I use vim. I write Perl. Perhaps it would be useful for me. > Actually I don't use it, too. Basically it adds sort of a perl > scripting capability to vim, including new perl functions to > manipulate the running vim by using VIM::foo functions. Just start vim > and type ":help perl". Interesting, perhaps useful. Probaby not worth making the dependency. Again, couldn't it be optional? IOW if Perl is present then the functions work otherwise they do not? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/