Re: [vile] A little follow-up to my Vileserv problem

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Chris G wrote:

> Just a short follow-up.
>
> Having found out last night why vileget wouldn't work I just came back
> this evening to actually use it - and couldn't remember how to load
> Vileserv.  Nothing in the documentation helped at all, I finally
> remembered where I had seen what to do, in the actual Vileserv.pm
> source.
>
> So, now I can do what I want!  :-)
>
> However I think it might be a good idea to have something in the vile
> help file that tells you how to run a perl add-on script.
>
> As a slightly more general question - is there a way of finding out
> what commands are available at the : prompt?

describe-bindings is where I usually look.

tab-completion shows a list of names - though some such as "perl" have 
their own syntax.

For perl, doc/perl.doc tells how to make a copy of the api document,
and that seems to work...

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