Compiler for perl

This tip is deprecated for the following reasons:

The official Vim distribution—since at least Vim 6.4—comes with a compiler script so you can type :compiler perl

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created 2003 · complexity basic · author Chris Forkin · version 5.7

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At one stage I was writing a lot of perl scripts/modules with Vim and found it useful to be able to run the perl syntax-checker (perl -c) from within Vim via the :make command. To be able to do this you'll need to add the following Module (VimCompile.pm) to your @INC.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#$Id: VimCompile.pm,v 1.2 2002/02/16 01:07:03 forkin Exp $
# reformat "perl -c" syntax-check error-/warning-messages for Vim

package VimCompile;
use strict;

sub _die {
  my ($msg)=@_;
  $msg=~s/^((.* at )((.*) line )([0-9]+)(\.|, near .*))$/$4:$5: $1/mg;
  die qq/$msg/;
}

sub _warn {
  my ($msg)=@_;
  $msg=~s/^((.* at )((.*) line )([0-9]+)(\.|, near .*))$/$4:$5: $1/mg;
  warn qq/$msg/;
}

$SIG{'__DIE__'}=\&_die;
$SIG{'__WARN__'}=\&_warn;
# return OK

1;

This Module will reformat the warnings/errors so that Vim can parse them (to allow you to jump to the location/source-code of the error). You will also need to deposit the following (perl.vim) in your ~/.vim/runtime/compiler directory.

" Vim compiler file
" Compiler: perl (output of "die" massaged)
" Maintainer: Chris Forkin, chris@forkin.com

if exists("current_compiler")
 finish
endif

let current_compiler = "perl"
" A workable errorformat for "perl -c"
setlocal errorformat=%f:%l:\ %m
" default make
setlocal makeprg=perl\ -MVimCompile\ -c\ %

Comments

:help errorformat-Perl

or have a look at $VIMRUNTIME/tools/efm_perl.pl to use quickfix mode with perl scripts.

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!perl -Wc %

Actually disregard my perl -Wc comment I realise yours does more then simple compiler checks.