This is the aggregation of all the various Perl-related syntax and helper files for Perl 5.

For Perl 6, which is now named Raku, please see vim-raku.

You can install vim-perl using

• Pathogen and git submodules
• Vundle
• VAM
• vim-plug

They were all tested and work: please read the related documentation on the related sites.

The legacy method is to install just do a "make install" and you'll get the .vim files all installed in your ~/.vim directory.

In your .vimrc:

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'vim-perl/vim-perl', { 'for': 'perl', 'do': 'make clean carp dancer highlight-all-pragmas moose test-more try-tiny' }
call plug#end()

Re-source your configuration, do PlugInstall, and you're done.

The do argument is optional, and can be used if you want to enable any of the optional sub-syntaxes.

The perl argument is also optional, and only required if you want to lazy-load the plugin only if dealing with Perl files.

Any bug reports/feature requests/patches should be directed to the vim-perl group.

When reporting bugs in the highlighting of items, please include an example file as well as a screenshot demonstrating the problem.

We have syntax "extensions" under the contrib/ directory; you can find custom highlighting for these sorts of things there. To enable any of them, just drop the relevant file in a after/syntax/perl directory visible to vim.

$ cp contrib/dancer.vim ~/.vim/after/syntax/perl/

You can also populate the local after/syntax/perl/ via make:

$ make dancer moose
$ ls after/syntax/perl
dancer.vim  moose.vim

(See also GH #86)

Vim itself only considers double quotes in this scenario; the matchit plugin, however, can deal with this scenario and vim-perl's files are set up to work with it should you choose to use it.