--- "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It doesn't. After pasting into an empty buffer via the clipboard, > block-deleting the column of numbers (from the left margin up to, but > not including, the s in "sub" at top and the last } at bottom) and > setting 'filetype' to perl, I see all reserved words in brown, > identifiers starting @ or $ in green including a preceding backslash if > present, the identifier D also in green, strings and numbers in pink > with the exception of backslash-escaped single quotes which are in > mauve, regular expressions in pink and mauve between brown slashes, and > the rest in black, all of it on a white background (this is gvim) from > top to bottom of the text. The only thing doubtful (to me) is that, > inside the double-quoted strings, ${logdir} is in pink but $! is in green. > > My Vim distribution uses ftplugin/perl.vim by Dan Sharp (2005 Dec 16) > and syntax/perl.vim by Nick Hibma (2006 Aug 9). >
That explains alot, then. I was using perl syntax by Nick Hibma, October 18, 2005 (probably what was packaged with vim 7 when it was released). Downloading the latest version from ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax/perl.vim corrected the problem. regards, Peter ____________________________________________________ On Yahoo!7 360°: Share your blog, photos, interests and what matters most to you http://www.yahoo7.com.au/360