From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: perl mode problems Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:15:21 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87ejwbs9k6.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153730792 24715 80.91.229.2 (24 Jul 2006 08:46:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:46:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 24 10:46:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G4w51-00051p-CJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:46:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G4w50-0000hl-U9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 04:46:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!news2.euro.net!138.199.65.86.MISMATCH!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-03!sn-post-ams-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Bvw95G8fm1nMsQWOkOyf4lUf2g= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 27 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140567 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:36192 Archived-At: "Ryan Moszynski" writes: > emacs 21.4.1 debian/ubuntu dapper > > does anyone else have constant problems with perl-mode? > > i have problems with reserved words not being recognized, parenthese > and and braces matching is terrible, and sometimes, inexplicably, I > have to put an extra ' or " after a comment so that emacs doesn't > thighlight the rest of my program as a comment. > > In every other way emacs works wonderfully for me. I've never had > these problems in c-mode or java-mode. Should I try cvs emacs, or is > there a way to upgrade just the perl mode and paren, curly braces > matching? > > thanks, > > ryan > > Try cperl-mode and see if you find it better. It comes with emacs. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au