Bug#761801: /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/perl.vim: isfname erroneously set to include ":"

[James McCoy]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:13:36AM +0200, Ph. Marek wrote:
> /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/perl.vim:41 includes a part
> 
>     " The following line changes a global variable but is necessary to make
>     " gf and similar commands work.  The change to iskeyword was incorrect.
>     " Thanks to Andrew Pimlott for pointing out the problem. If this causes a
>     " problem for you, add an after/ftplugin/perl.vim file that contains
>     "       set isfname-=:
>     set isfname+=:
>     set iskeyword+=:
> 
> But that is incorrect - including ":" in "isfname" breaks "gF".

The reasoning behind this change is exactly to allow gf and friends to
work on Perl package names, which are of the form Foo::Bar.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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