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: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 10688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, draxil <draxil <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:17:35 -0400

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> The main problem is that the cperl-mode code's maintainership has some
> problems (poor communication and some disagreements between Ilya and the
> Emacs team).

Note that there does not seem to have been an upstream release for ~ 4+
years, AFAICS. The traditional upstream location is 403 today, but
exists in search engines caches.
A braver man than I has already forked it some years ago;
https://github.com/jrockway/cperl-mode

(I'm not volunteering to do anything! :) )
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 262 days ago.

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