newbie: emacs21 and cperl-mode

newbie: emacs21 and cperl-mode

[Matthew.Pettis]

Hi,

I am doing this on Ubuntu-6.10... installed emacs21 via synaptic...

I tried switching to cperl-mode (M-x cperl-mode), and the status bar
(I think it's called) tells me I am in cperl mode, but there is no
syntax highlighting, and none of the automatic expansions work.
Actually, perl-mode does nothing as well...

I looked at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CPerlMode#CPerlMode1,
and it tells me to add some lines to my ~/.emacs file (or ~./xemacs
or ./.xemacs/init.el), none of which exist for me.

Do I need to create these, or should they be there?  If I need to
create one, which one should I create?  Is this missing file probably
the cause of why nothing works?

Thanks,

Re: newbie: emacs21 and cperl-mode

[Matthew Flaschen]

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Matthew.Pettis@gmail.com wrote:
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> Do I need to create these, or should they be there?

You need to create ~/.emacs .  Make sure you also set
global-font-lock-mode true.  To do this, type Meta-x customize-variable
global-font-lock-mode .  Then, toggle it to non-nil, and click Save for
future sessions.

Matthew Flaschen


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Re: newbie: emacs21 and cperl-mode

[Matthew.Pettis]

this worked!  my syntax highlighting for perl-mode and cperl-mode both
work... thanks!

matt

On Feb 23, 1:05 am, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flasc...@gatech.edu>
wrote:
> Matthew.Pet...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Do I need to create these, or should they be there?
>
> You need to create ~/.emacs .  Make sure you also set
> global-font-lock-mode true.  To do this, type Meta-x customize-variable
> global-font-lock-mode .  Then, toggle it to non-nil, and click Save for
> future sessions.
>
> Matthew Flaschen
>
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