Subject: Re: 23.0.96; CPerl-mode is too electric

From: Ilya Zakharevich <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:33:21 -0700

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 07:24:23PM -0400, Chong Yidong wrote:
> The problem exists in upstream CPerl as well.  The bug arises from line
> 3763 (cperl-electric-paren):
> 
>   (if (eq last-command-char ?<)
>       (progn
>         (and abbrev-mode ; later it is too late, may be after `for'
>              (expand-abbrev))
>         (cperl-after-expr-p nil "{;(,:="))
>     1))
> 
> Because one abbrev expansion already takes place when typing "while ",
> this code leads to another, extra expansion.  Removing the
> (and abbrev-mode...) expression fixes the problem.

A lot of thanks for investigating this problem!

  >>TODO

Thanks again,
Ilya