This Module will reformat the warnings/errors so that Vim can parse them (to allow you to jump to the location/source-code of the error). You will also need to deposit the following (perl.vim) in your ~/.vim/runtime/compiler directory. " Vim compiler file " Compiler: perl (output of "die" massaged) " Maintainer: Chris Forkin, chris@forkin.com if exists("current_compiler") finish endif let current_compiler = "perl" " A workable errorformat for "perl -c" setlocal errorformat=%f:%l:\ %m " default make setlocal makeprg=perl\ -MVimCompile\ -c\ %