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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Message #59 received at 10688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jonathan Rockway <jon <at> jrock.us>
Cc: 10688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
	draxil <draxil <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead
	of perl-mode
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:58:22 -0400

> (I'm somewhat surprised that anyone uses perl-mode; cperl-mode is ...
> interesting code-wise, but it does work really, really well.)

perl-mode is the default, so you can expect many people to use it.
Also, I stick to perl-mode (for the few times I use Perl) because it is
the default (dog-fooding and things like that).

Also the perl-mode was more amenable to experimentation (I used it as
a play ground for the fancier syntactic fontification, e.g. it was
a large part of the motivation for font-lock-syntactic-face-function).


        Stefan
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