perl mode problems

perl mode problems

[Ryan Moszynski]

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

Re: perl mode problems

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 20.07.2006 um 03:21 schrieb Ryan Moszynski:

> does anyone else have constant problems with perl-mode?

Have you tried cperl-mode?

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Re: perl mode problems

[Tim X]

"Ryan Moszynski" <ryan.m.lists@gmail.com> 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

Re: perl mode problems

[Eric Pement]

Tim X wrote:

> Try cperl-mode and see if you find it better. It comes with emacs.

I had some highlighting problems with the cperl-mode that came with
emacs, and found that that version is not up to date.

The latest version of cperl-mode is kept at
http://math.berkeley.edu/~ilya/software/emacs/

I downloaded version 5.19, installed it in my "site-lisp" directory,
and my highlighting problems were solved.

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Eric Pement