Subject: Re: bug#18944: 24.4; perl-mode electric-indent inside here documents

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:15:58 +0200

Ed Avis <[email-masked]> writes:

> With 26.1 the way to reproduce is a bit different.  Make a new buffer, M-x perl-mode, and enter
>
> my $x = <<END
> END
>
> hitting Return at the end of each line.  But when you hit Return on the second line, the END becomes indented by four spaces.  That's not right since a here-document terminator should be at the left margin.

Thanks for reporting back.  I can reproduce this bug with the above
recipe on current master and Emacs 26.3.

A workaround is to add a semi-colon to END:

my $x = <<END;
END;

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas