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: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: joe higton <draxil <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:25:31 -0500

The reason I did not make cperl mode the default, years ago, was that some
users preferred the older perl mode.  They thought cperl had some drawbacks.
And the author of cperl mode was unwilling to fix them.

I don't recall what those drawbacks were -- I never used Perl -- and I
don't know if this is still true.

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