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From: Colin Williams <lackita@gmail.com>
To: Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: perl-mode vs cperl-mode
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:55:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1b97198a0908070755y788c1d89u843f7e6243614718@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b571924-1d5c-4907-b89d-46a5d4087a0d@p28g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>

I guess I understand that it generally handles quirky syntax "better,"
I'm looking more for examples/features that cperl-mode has that
perl-mode fails at.  So far we've got regexp and string quoting, are
there any other "useful" features?

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Elena<egarrulo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 Ago, 13:45, Colin Williams <lack...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to decide how to set up my perl development environment,
>> and I've come to a bit of a conundrum.  I realize that there is both a
>> `perl-mode' and a `cperl-mode' lying around in the emacs code base,
>> but it's unclear to me which one is better.  Many people have said
>> (rather authoritatively, I might add) that `cperl-mode' is much
>> better, but none of these people bother to list the ways in which it's
>> better.  I was hoping somebody could categorically list the features
>> `cperl-mode' has that make it better than `perl-mode'.
>>
>> Colin
>
> Last time I used it, cperl-mode dealt with Perl's quirky syntax better
> than perl-mode. You can check it on your own. Pay attention to both
> regex and strings quoting.
>




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-07 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.4124.1249654635.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-07 14:33 ` perl-mode vs cperl-mode Elena
2009-08-07 14:55   ` Colin Williams [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4127.1249656910.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-07 15:04     ` Michael Ekstrand
2009-08-07 16:36 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2009-08-07 17:33   ` A.Politz
2009-08-07 17:56     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-07 22:33   ` Xah Lee
2009-08-08  4:11     ` Ilya Zakharevich
2009-08-07 13:45 Colin Williams

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