From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: draxil <draxil@gmail.com>
Cc: 10688@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:02:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7tobjq1qvz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351178844503-268051.post@n5.nabble.com> (draxil@gmail.com's message of "Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:27:24 -0700 (PDT)")
draxil wrote:
> Last time I used perl-mode *was* a long time ago, but it had broken syntax
> highlighting and things like indentation couldn't take account of perl
> syntax very well.
This is all very vague.
From a maintenance point of view, cperl-mode.el is 9 times longer than
perl-mode.el. You may say "it's 9 times better", but to me it seems
overly complicated. This, plus the fact that we effectively are not
allowed to ever simplify away any of the huge amount of compatibility
cruft for ancient Emacs versions (Emacs 19!) that it contains, makes it
much less appealing as a default from that viewpoint.
I think you are much more likely to get a response by filing specific
bug reports about areas where perl-mode.el is lacking.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-25 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-01 14:42 bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode joe higton
2012-02-02 13:25 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-02 13:59 ` joe higton
2012-02-04 16:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-06 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-25 10:01 ` draxil
2012-10-25 12:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-25 15:23 ` draxil
2012-10-25 15:27 ` draxil
2012-10-25 16:02 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2012-10-25 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-26 1:33 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-29 8:37 ` Stefan Merten
2012-10-30 20:34 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-25 16:17 ` Glenn Morris
2012-10-25 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-25 19:03 ` draxil
2012-10-25 19:41 ` Glenn Morris
2012-10-25 21:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-29 7:26 ` Jonathan Rockway
2012-10-29 12:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-30 1:57 ` Chong Yidong
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