GNU bug report logs - #44073
cperl-mode: Cleanup - Delete a misleading comment [PATCH]

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Harald Jörg <haj <at> posteo.de>

Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:56:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 44073 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Harald Jörg <haj <at> posteo.de>
Cc: 44073 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44073: cperl-mode: Cleanup - Delete a misleading comment
 [PATCH]
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:58:17 +0200

Harald Jörg <haj <at> posteo.de> writes:

>
> With this patch, cperl-mode.el no longer informs the user about "Font
> lock bugs" which have been fixed - or worked around - long ago: Some of
> Perl's punctuation variables contain string delimiters ($`, $' and $")
> but they don't start strings.  Fontification handles this correctly.
>
> The patch eliminates the comment, and it comes with a test to verify
> that cperl-mode gets it right in all cases which were listed in the
> comment, plus some more.

Thanks; applied to the trunk.

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