From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Moszynski" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: perl mode problems Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:21:17 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153358498 30909 80.91.229.2 (20 Jul 2006 01:21:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:21:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 20 03:21:37 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 1G3NEL-0003Vz-9E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:21:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3NEK-0006Wp-Q8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:21:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3NE8-0006UA-Rf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:21:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3NE7-0006RX-Bk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:21:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3NE7-0006RN-8s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:21:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.190] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G3NEC-000817-6S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:21:24 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n28so368700nfc for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:21:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=dzYwgUyQRPr1oENqAc0VAmVHY+Okj0GWUDx0rCA+2wqYHdcVoSWJfXZntpZfXG5WQGq4UT9NNHuPDgHm7O3co7mZY58WjYkwdI6mRlg0kQs5A/96HZXqsgMc9A+6+n5XHvYd18QF/CurRkdL3XGRNUl5n3gerRMuUFnz8v5ZmA0= Original-Received: by 10.78.170.17 with SMTP id s17mr44812hue; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.158.17 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:21:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline 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:36109 Archived-At: 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