Disable automatic Perl indentation

Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Joel Konkle-Parker]

I want to disable the Emacs 19 feature that indents a line in Perl when 
I type the terminating ';' character. How do I do something like this? 
(in .emacs, preferably)

- Joel

Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Kai Großjohann]

Joel Konkle-Parker <j.j.konkle-parker@larc.nasa.gov> writes:

> I want to disable the Emacs 19 feature that indents a line in Perl
> when I type the terminating ';' character. How do I do something like
> this? (in .emacs, preferably)

What does C-h k ; say in such a Perl buffer?
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Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Joel Konkle-Parker]

> What does C-h k ; say in such a Perl buffer?
> 


-----------

; runs the command electric-perl-terminator:

Insert character and adjust indentation.
If at end-of-line, and not in a comment or a quote, correct the's 
indentation.
-----------

What now?

- Joel

Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Kai Großjohann]

Joel Konkle-Parker <j.j.konkle-parker@larc.nasa.gov> writes:

>> What does C-h k ; say in such a Perl buffer?
>
> -----------
>
> ; runs the command electric-perl-terminator:
>
> Insert character and adjust indentation.
> If at end-of-line, and not in a comment or a quote, correct the's
> indentation.
> -----------
>
> What now?

You could do

(require 'perl-mode)
(define-key perl-mode-map (kbd ";") 'self-insert-command)

Does it work?
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Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Joel Konkle-Parker]

> You could do
> 
> (require 'perl-mode)
> (define-key perl-mode-map (kbd ";") 'self-insert-command)
> 
> Does it work?
> 


"Required feature perl-mode not provided"

- joel

Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Kai Großjohann]

Joel Konkle-Parker <j.j.konkle-parker@larc.nasa.gov> writes:

>> You could do
>> (require 'perl-mode)
>> (define-key perl-mode-map (kbd ";") 'self-insert-command)
>> Does it work?
>
> "Required feature perl-mode not provided"

Hm.  This appears fishy.  Which version of Emacs have you got?
As a workaround, it might be useful to say (load "perl-mode") instead
of (require 'perl-mode).
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Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Joel Konkle-Parker]

> Hm.  This appears fishy.  Which version of Emacs have you got?
> As a workaround, it might be useful to say (load "perl-mode") instead
> of (require 'perl-mode).
> 

I have GNU Emacs 19.34.2

With the (load "perl-mode") statement in there, it gives me: "Symbol's 
function definition is void: kbd"

- Joel

Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Edward O'Connor]

> I have GNU Emacs 19.34.2
> 
> With the (load "perl-mode") statement in there, it gives me:
> "Symbol's function definition is void: kbd"

Toss this in your ~/.emacs:

(unless (fboundp 'kbd)
  (defmacro kbd (key-sequence)
    (read-kbd-macro key-sequence)))


Ted

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oconnor@soe.ucsd.edu

Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Joel Konkle-Parker]

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> Toss this in your ~/.emacs:
> 
> (unless (fboundp 'kbd)
>   (defmacro kbd (key-sequence)
>     (read-kbd-macro key-sequence)))
> 
> 
> Ted
> 
> 

"Symbol's function definition is void: unless"

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(setq kill-whole-line t)
(setq next-line-add-newlines nil)
(setq require-final-newline t)
(setq make-backup-files nil)
(setq line-number-mode t)
(setq column-number-mode t)
(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)

(unless (fboundp 'kbd)
  (defmacro kbd (key-sequence)
    (read-kbd-macro key-sequence)))

(load "perl-mode")
(define-key perl-mode-map (kbd ";") 'self-insert-command)

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Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Edward O'Connor]

>> Toss this in your ~/.emacs:
>> (unless (fboundp 'kbd)
>>   (defmacro kbd (key-sequence)
>>     (read-kbd-macro key-sequence)))
>> Ted
>>
> 
> "Symbol's function definition is void: unless"

Oh, right.

(if (not (fboundp 'kbd))

instead of

(unless (fboundp 'kbd)


Ted

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oconnor@soe.ucsd.edu

Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Kai Großjohann]

Joel Konkle-Parker <j.j.konkle-parker@larc.nasa.gov> writes:

> [[ various strange problems ]]

Just for the record, I'd like to mention that Emacs 19 is pretty
old.  Most people use Emacs 20 or 21 these days.  So people are wont
to give you advice which is good for 20 or 21 but doesn't work on 19.

So in a way, if you would upgrade, you'd avoid many of those
problems...
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Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Joel Konkle-Parker]

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> Just for the record, I'd like to mention that Emacs 19 is pretty
> old.  Most people use Emacs 20 or 21 these days.  So people are wont
> to give you advice which is good for 20 or 21 but doesn't work on 19.
> 
> So in a way, if you would upgrade, you'd avoid many of those
> problems...
> 

Unfortunately, I have no control over that, and our sysadmin obviously 
doesn't consider it a priority. Oh well...

Anyway, the lastest error:

"Symbol's function definition is void: kbd"

- Joel

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(setq kill-whole-line t)
(setq next-line-add-newlines nil)
(setq require-final-newline t)
(setq make-backup-files nil)
(setq line-number-mode t)
(setq column-number-mode t)
(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)

(if (fboundp 'kbd)
  (defmacro kbd (key-sequence)
    (read-kbd-macro key-sequence)))

(load "perl-mode")
(define-key perl-mode-map (kbd ";") 'self-insert-command)

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Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Kai Großjohann]

Joel Konkle-Parker <j.j.konkle-parker@larc.nasa.gov> writes:

>> Just for the record, I'd like to mention that Emacs 19 is pretty
>> old.  Most people use Emacs 20 or 21 these days.  So people are wont
>> to give you advice which is good for 20 or 21 but doesn't work on 19.
>> So in a way, if you would upgrade, you'd avoid many of those
>> problems...
>
> Unfortunately, I have no control over that, and our sysadmin obviously
> doesn't consider it a priority. Oh well...

It won't hurt to ask, if you haven't already.  Or compile it for
yourself -- it's quite easy.

> Anyway, the lastest error:
>
> "Symbol's function definition is void: kbd"
>
> (load "perl-mode")
> (define-key perl-mode-map (kbd ";") 'self-insert-command)

Maybe just side-step the problem via

(load "perl-mode")
(define-key perl-mode-map ";" 'self-insert-command)

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Re: Disable automatic Perl indentation

[Joel Konkle-Parker]

> Maybe just side-step the problem via
> 
> (load "perl-mode")
> (define-key perl-mode-map ";" 'self-insert-command)
> 
> 

That worked; thanks guys

- Joel