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

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Message #41 received at 10688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, draxil <draxil <at> gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Rockway <jon <at> jrock.us>
Subject: Re: bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead
	of perl-mode
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:25:32 -0400

>> 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

Let me put it some other way:

If/when someone is willing and able to take over maintenance of
cperl-mode (starting with cleaning up the Emacs-19-style-code-cruft),
then I might consider switching the default to cperl-mode.

But it might be easier to start from perl-mode and add cperl-mode chunks
to it.


        Stefan

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