Re: What to do with perl-support when set ft=perl set in vimrc

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Aaron Lewis wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Just activated perl-support plugin , if i do set ft=perl inside my
>> ~/.vimrc , thus i'll receive a warning:
>>
>> Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftplugin/perl.vim:
>> line 414:
>> E121: Undefined variable: g:Perl_PerlTags
>> E15: Invalid expression: has('perl') && g:Perl_PerlTags == 'enabled'
>> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>>
>>
>> But if i start vim , and type in "set ft=perl" manually , all goes well.
>>
>> Am i missing sth. here ?
>
> g:Perl_PerlTags isn't part of any recent (7.0+) ftplugin/perl.vim. Googling
> it, I found:
>
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=556
>
> which has a changelog from 2008-01-02:
>
> + Global variable g:Perl_PerlTags is no longer needed.
>
> So, perhaps you're using that and updating that script might help? Are you
> using a particularly old version of Vim?

Oy. Feels like Monday. I suppose I could have read your message, which
mentions you're using that script. Nonetheless the changelog seems
relevant: probably the script is written for a newer version of Vim
than you're using?

--
Best,
Ben

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