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<p class=MsoNormal><font color=navy face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font color=navy face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>this
is a normal setup for perl on a VMS system<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font color=navy face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>indeed
the executable() command might need to be improved on VMS system as every
EXE and COM is executable on VMS if the user has sufficient rights.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font color=navy face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>…also please note that by default Vim is
built with –perl on VMS :(<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font color=navy face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Regards, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font color=navy face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Samuel Ferencik
[mailto:sferencik@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> den 28 december 2010 09:24<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Vim
text editor list on OpenVMS</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> andy@petdance.com; Dan Sharp<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Vim-vms] if
executable("perl") ... while "perl" is set up as a symbol</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font face="Times New Roman" size=3><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi,<br>
<br>
the Perl ftplugin (ftplugin/perl.vim) performs the following check:<br>
if executable("perl")<br>
...<br>
system('perl -e ...')<br>
...<br>
endif<br>
<br>
On my VMS system, perl is a (global) symbol set as follows:<br>
PERL == "$PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERL.EXE"<br>
<br>
Obviously, this is not recongnised by executable(), although it is executable.<br>
<br>
So I have two questions:<br>
<br>
1) is this kind of set-up ("perl" being a symbol) common on other
(yoru) VMS systems? Or is my set-up exotic?<br>
<br>
2) have you got any idea how to check for an executable symbol on VMS? The
simple solution is to change this to:<br>
<br>
if executable("perl") ||
has("vms") && exists($perl)<br>
<br>
but that's based on the (perhaps reasonable?) assumption
that perl 1) is a symbol (rather than a logical name) and that 2) it can be
invoked to execute the perl interpreter.<br>
<br>
Any better idea?<br>
<br>
Thanks and regards,<br>
Sam<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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