Re: perl-mode vs cperl-mode

[Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com>]

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.