Re: perl-mode vs cperl-mode

[Colin Williams <lackita@gmail.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.
>