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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: draxil <draxil@gmail.com>
Cc: 10688@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:34:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva9va3f8g.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351159277417-268030.post@n5.nabble.com> (draxil@gmail.com's message of "Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:01:17 -0700 (PDT)")

> I would say that my personal experience, and that of the people in the more
> active perl community spaces which I have consulted, the stock version of
> cperl-mode included in the emacs distribution is still far superior to the
> default perl-mode.

The main problem is that the cperl-mode code's maintainership has some
problems (poor communication and some disagreements between Ilya and the
Emacs team).

Also, missing from your request is concrete reasons, other than "it
seems to be more popular".


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-25 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-01 14:42 bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode joe higton
2012-02-02 13:25 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-02 13:59   ` joe higton
2012-02-04 16:09     ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-06 13:59       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-25 10:01         ` draxil
2012-10-25 12:34           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-10-25 15:23             ` draxil
2012-10-25 15:27               ` draxil
2012-10-25 16:02                 ` Glenn Morris
2012-10-25 18:25                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-26  1:33                 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-29  8:37                   ` Stefan Merten
2012-10-30 20:34                     ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-25 16:17             ` Glenn Morris
2012-10-25 18:25               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-25 19:03                 ` draxil
2012-10-25 19:41                 ` Glenn Morris
2012-10-25 21:04                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-29  7:26                 ` Jonathan Rockway
2012-10-29 12:58                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-30  1:57                     ` Chong Yidong

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