From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cperl-mode instead of perl-mode? Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86d5fn0xue.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144853124 6387 80.91.229.2 (12 Apr 2006 14:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 12 16:45:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTgaJ-0002JN-3u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:44:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTgaI-0005x4-KI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:44:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FTgZz-0005vf-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:44:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FTgZx-0005tK-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTgZw-0005tH-Vj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:44:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FTgf3-0007bE-Ps for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:49:37 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DDB2CE9BF; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:44:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FAD9445C; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 505C471523; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) In-Reply-To: <86d5fn0xue.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "12 Apr 2006 05:42:17 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52761 Archived-At: Karl> Perl-mode mis-indents this: > All the cool-cats I know have completely abandoned perl-mode > for cperl-mode long ago. Is there any way we can just make > that the default instead? The reason why cperl-mode wasn't made the default when it got integrated (AFAIK) was that it had several misbehaviors w.r.t conventions and that the original author wasn't interested in fixing them and nobody else volunteered. By now, perl-mode has caught up with some of cperl-mode's features and has even added some of its own, while perl-mode's odd aspects haven't really ben addressed (tho, at least, you can now use both perl-mode and cperl-mode in the same Emacs, without one stepping on the other's toes). Stefan "the closest there is to a maintainer of `perl-mode'"