Subject: bug#45840: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Remove hardcoded underline for perl-mode variables

From: Protesilaos Stavrou <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:07:27 +0200

On 2021-01-19, 07:32 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Protesilaos Stavrou <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> The attached patch merely assigns font-lock-variable-name-face while
>> removing the hardcoded underline property.
>>
>> If you think that the underline should remain in place, then I can
>> provide another patch that would add a new face which would inherit from
>> font-lock-variable-name-face and add an underline accordingly.
>
> The comment here mentions this:
>
>      ;; Additionally underline non-scalar variables.  Maybe this is a bad idea.
>      ;;'("[$@%*][#{]?\\(\\sw+\\)" 1 font-lock-variable-name-face)
>      ("[$*]{?\\(\\sw+\\(::\\sw+\\)*\\)" 1 font-lock-variable-name-face)
>      ("\\([@%]\\|\\$#\\)\\(\\sw+\\(::\\sw+\\)*\\)"
>       (2 (cons font-lock-variable-name-face '(underline))))
>
> And it is a bad idea to hard-code this, but having different faces here
> makes sense, I think.  So could you whip up another patch to add the new
> face, as you suggested?

Thank you, Lars!  Please find attached the new patch.  I also added a
NEWS entry.  Feel free to edit it as you will.

-- 
Protesilaos Stavrou
protesilaos.com
>From 161ba7a2a406122c95ab0bb41d1b1bc9bde2d565 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Protesilaos Stavrou <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:04:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add 'perl-non-scalar-variable' face to perl-mode

* lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el (perl-non-scalar-variable): Define new
face.
(perl-font-lock-keywords-2): Apply 'perl-non-scalar-variable' face.

* etc/NEWS: Document the new face.
---
 etc/NEWS                    |  6 ++++++
 lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index d632283e7f..8fc5f3e046 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -352,6 +352,12 @@ When emacsclient connects, Emacs will (by default) output a message
 about how to exit the client frame.  If 'server-client-instructions'
 is set to nil, this message is inhibited.
 
+** Perl mode
+
+---
+*** New face 'perl-non-scalar-variable'.
+This is used to fontify non-scalar variables.
+
 ** Python mode
 
 *** 'python-shell-interpreter' now defaults to python3 on systems with python3.
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el
index 2a2a4978c6..d047dd543c 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el
@@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ perl
   :prefix "perl-"
   :group 'languages)
 
+(defface perl-non-scalar-variable
+  '((t :inherit font-lock-variable-name-face :underline t))
+  "Face used for non-scalar variables."
+  :version "28.1"
+  :group 'perl)
+
 (defvar perl-mode-abbrev-table nil
   "Abbrev table in use in perl-mode buffers.")
 (define-abbrev-table 'perl-mode-abbrev-table ())
@@ -187,11 +193,12 @@ perl-font-lock-keywords-2
      ;;
      ;; Fontify function, variable and file name references.
      ("&\\(\\sw+\\(::\\sw+\\)*\\)" 1 font-lock-function-name-face)
-     ;; Additionally underline non-scalar variables.  Maybe this is a bad idea.
+     ;; Additionally fontify non-scalar variables.  `perl-non-scalar-variable'
+     ;; will underline them by default.
      ;;'("[$@%*][#{]?\\(\\sw+\\)" 1 font-lock-variable-name-face)
      ("[$*]{?\\(\\sw+\\(::\\sw+\\)*\\)" 1 font-lock-variable-name-face)
      ("\\([@%]\\|\\$#\\)\\(\\sw+\\(::\\sw+\\)*\\)"
-      (2 (cons font-lock-variable-name-face '(underline))))
+      (2 'perl-non-scalar-variable))
      ("<\\(\\sw+\\)>" 1 font-lock-constant-face)
      ;;
      ;; Fontify keywords with/and labels as we do in `c++-font-lock-keywords'.
-- 
2.30.0