From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:25:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328189278 26586 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2012 13:27:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:27:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10688@debbugs.gnu.org To: joe higton Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 02 14:26:57 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rswgj-0007RV-0N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:26:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50122 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rswgi-0003bG-Bi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:26:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49526) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RswgX-0003a5-V2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:26:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RswgS-000310-9e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:26:45 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46524) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RswgS-00030v-6y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:26:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rswgo-0004VO-Tg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:27:05 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:27:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10688 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10688-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10688.132818916817251 (code B ref 10688); Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:27:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10688) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Feb 2012 13:26:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50144 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rswfq-0004U6-WA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:26:06 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:49324 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rswfn-0004Th-Ek for 10688@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:26:01 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RswfL-0002iN-Hp; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:25:31 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from joe higton on Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:42:09 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:56381 Archived-At: The reason I did not make cperl mode the default, years ago, was that some users preferred the older perl mode. They thought cperl had some drawbacks. And the author of cperl mode was unwilling to fix them. I don't recall what those drawbacks were -- I never used Perl -- and I don't know if this is still true. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/