Is there any way to enable code completion for Perl in vim?

Question

Surprisingly as you get good at vim, you can code even faster than standard IDEs such as Eclipse. But one thing I really miss is code completion, especially for long variable na

Answer 1

The .vimrc clip in one of the other answers is slightly wrong. To turn your tab key into an auto-complete key, use this code:

inoremap  =InsertTabWrapper()

function! InsertTabWrapper()
    let col = col('.') - 1
    if !col || getline('.')[col - 1] !~ '\k'
        return "\"
    else
        return "\"
    endif
endfunction

You can find this, and tons of other vim tricks in this thread at Perlmonks--which links to even more threads with lots more customizations.