From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Matthew.Pettis@gmail.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: newbie: emacs21 and cperl-mode Date: 22 Feb 2007 22:34:50 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1172212490.913656.285590@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172212841 17554 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2007 06:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 23 07:40:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HKU6Y-0002nm-2A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKU6X-0004Px-L2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:40:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.72.239.94 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1172212513 30272 127.0.0.1 (23 Feb 2007 06:35:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:35:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.72.239.94; posting-account=X0zHSw0AAADuH8ArKlxKKX-A2HoX2-ul Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145820 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41424 Archived-At: Hi, I am doing this on Ubuntu-6.10... installed emacs21 via synaptic... I tried switching to cperl-mode (M-x cperl-mode), and the status bar (I think it's called) tells me I am in cperl mode, but there is no syntax highlighting, and none of the automatic expansions work. Actually, perl-mode does nothing as well... I looked at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CPerlMode#CPerlMode1, and it tells me to add some lines to my ~/.emacs file (or ~./xemacs or ./.xemacs/init.el), none of which exist for me. Do I need to create these, or should they be there? If I need to create one, which one should I create? Is this missing file probably the cause of why nothing works? Thanks,