Subject: bug#66050: Making perl-mode.el obsolete

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:16:43 -0700

Corwin Brust <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 6:26 PM Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>> > If it is feasible to put conditionals in CPerl mode to make it behave
>> > like Perl mode -- or close enough that almost everyone is happy with
>> > it -- maybe then we could obsolete the current Perl mode.
>>
>> Agreed.  Let's start with adding such options to cperl-mode.
>
> Does there already exist a list of cperl features/behaviors which
> perl-mode users find objectionable?

I'm only aware of the list provided by Jens Schmidt upthread:

    https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=66050#16