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

Vim 7 supports omni completion.

For example, I have this in my vimrc

autocmd FileType php set omnifunc=phpcomplete#CompletePHP

and then, when I press Ctrl-x Ctrl-o in Insert mode, I get a dropdown list of autocomplete possibilities.

Here's an omnicfunc for perl. No idea how well it works though.

Answer 2

You should look at the SuperTab plugin: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1643 It let's you do completion (either the OmniCompletion or the regular completion) using tab and shift-tab instead of ^N and ^P.