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29.4; cperl-mode __END__ is incorrectly handled

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From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
To: ciolfi <at> mathworks.com, 76868 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76868: 29.4; cperl-mode __END__ is incorrectly handled
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 12:51:16 -0300

On 8/3/25 12:34, John Ciolfi via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss 
army knife of text editors wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Given the following cperl-mode program, test.pl
>
>      # -*- mode: cperl; -*-
>      print "hello\n";
>      __END__
>      This is not
>        perl code!
>
> The lines after the __END__ are treated as perl code. They are 
syntactically colored and indented
> which is incorrect. In perl, __END__ defines the end of the Perl code 
in the file. Any text that
> appears after __END__ is ignored by the Perl compiler.
>
> All lines after __END__ should be treated as comments.
>

Any chance that the option cperl-fontify-trailer helps here?

I remember reporting something similar in:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=66161

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