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Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 09:23:52 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
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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. ;-)

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".

Corinna

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