From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Higton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Changing the default perl mode Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327671329 3803 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2012 13:35:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:35:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 27 14:35:25 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RqlxY-00036J-4s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:35:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39936 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqlxX-0000gU-JQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:35:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39286) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqlxV-0000gG-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:35:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqlxP-0005Hj-F8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:35:17 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqlxP-0005HX-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:35:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RqlxM-00032K-Tu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:35:09 +0100 Original-Received: from 88-97-43-165.dsl.zen.co.uk ([88.97.43.165]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:35:08 +0100 Original-Received: from draxil by 88-97-43-165.dsl.zen.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:35:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 88.97.43.165 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.32 Safari/535.7) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147977 Archived-At: Hi, As an emacs evangelist in the Perl community I like to give people advise on how to get started using emacs for Perl development. Unfortunately step 1 is to tell them that whilst the standard emacs perl-mode isn't very good, it can be easily be swapped for the vastly superior cperl-mode via a quick modification to their .emacs file... Getting them start hacking around in their configuration files isn't always the best start for people who are trying emacs for the first time. After a recent debate on the Perl subreddit I thought I'd come and at least ask the question: What are the chances of changing the default emacs mode for Perl to cperl-mode? I realise that changing such things from underneath users is probably something which you don't undertake lightly, but cperl-mode seems to be mature and also the established favourite with developers, so I'd say there is a strong case for this. Thanks, Joe Higton.