created by

Lukas Mai

script type

syntax

description

This file is based on the perl.vim syntax definition that comes with vim, but with some heavy modifications intended to improve vim's perl highlighting. The list of changes includes: * 'new' and 'croak' are not keywords and no longer highlighted as such * Special highlighting for pragmas (e.g. "use warnings") now applies to all pragmas coming with perl * Fixed number highlighting ("0X" is not a valid hex prefix, "L" is not a valid suffix) * Fixed escape sequence highlighting ("\X123" is not a hex escape, "\123" is limited to three octal digits) * Lots of improvements in the matching of quoted constructs:   - vim no longer thinks "!" is a quoting operator (so "!!" works right)   - support for arbitrary quoting delimiters (e.g. "m%...%" works)   - I've also tried to make nesting work (e.g. "s[foo[bar]][b[a]z]g") * Full support for subroutine definitions (parsing of prototypes and attributes) * Recognizes v-strings and statement labels * "=>" quotes its LHS, even if it's a keyword * Perl 5.10 support: new keywords ('given', 'when', 'default', 'state', 'break') and regexp control operators ('PRUNE', 'SKIP', 'COMMIT', etc.)

install details

Copy perl.vim into ~/.vim/syntax/ and vim will find it before the "standard" perl syntax file that comes with vim.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
perl.vim	0.11	2008-08-07	6.0	Lukas Mai	* fold "given" blocks * highlight \012 as octal escape in regexes * fix "$foo:bar" highlighting if 'iskeyword' contains ":" * switch scope_in_variables and extended_vars on by default
perl.vim	0.10	2008-07-15	6.0	Lukas Mai	Initial upload

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