Subject: Re: bug#15778: 24.3; cperl-mode causes emacs to lock up

From: Nathan Trapuzzano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:59:12 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> I cannot reproduce this.  Does it happen in "emacs -Q"?

No.  Specifically, the offending line in my .emacs is, whaddya know,
(defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode).

Try this:

emacs -Q
M-: (defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode)
C-x C-f Beta.pm
M-x goto-line 44
C-k