GNU bug report logs - #10688
The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: joe higton <draxil <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 16:56:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: 10688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:59:47 -0500
> I've been using cperl-mode for a while, and it has many enhancements
> over perl-mode.  Ilya's version has diverged from the cperl-mode in GNU
> Emacs, though, and I believe Ilya's version has a slight edge.

We've sync'd Ilya's cperl-mode in the past.  If it needs to be updated,
it can be sync'd again (AFAIK, the two cperl-mode versions have
slightly diverged, indeed, but not that much: we try to keep our local
changes small).

BTW, this "problematic maintainership" is one hurdle to making
cperl-mode the default Perl mode, indeed.  That's one of the reasons why
I've invested some time to improve perl-mode (even tho I don't use it
myself).


        Stefan




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