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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 09:40:52 -0700
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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?



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