I have problems with correct alignment of the closing parenthesis in cperl-mode. For example consider the following Perl code: my $a = func1( Module::test() ); my $b = func2( test() ); my $c = func3( Module::test(), ); We see that the closing parenthesis is not correctly indented for func1, but for func2 and func3 it is correct. In cperl-mode-hook I have (setq cperl-indent-level 4) (setq cperl-indent-parens-as-block t) (setq cperl-close-paren-offset -4) It seems to me that this behavior is related to the newest version of cperl-mode. I am using Emacs 24.4 on Ubuntu 14.04, and the cperl-mode that came with the installation (/opt/emacs24.4/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el.gz) is version 6.1 of cperl-mode. I then tried to install cperl-mode from ELPA using Emacs 24.4 package manager (list-packages), and it turned out that it gave me version 5.23 of cperl-mode which also indented the closing parenthesis correctly.. M-x emacs-version: GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.8) of 2015-01-11 on hakon-ThinkPad-Edge-E540 I built Emacs 24.4.1 from source, using with `--with-xft` option to configure. Best regards, Håkon Hægland