Re: perl indentation

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 20:53:45 -0800 (PST) Jagadeesh <mnjagadeesh@gmail.com> wrote: 

J> On Dec 2, 12:11 am, aartist <aart...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 1, 11:13 am, Jagadeesh <mnjagade...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> > Again this is a newbie question.
>> 
>> > how do I indent perl code? Is there any key?
>> 
>> > Thanks
>> > Jagadeesh
>> 
>> M-x cperl-mode

J> Thanks for the reply.
J> Its not indenting it. when I do M-x cperl-mode, there is no effect.

Start Emacs without any init files:

emacs -q test.pl

Then do

M-x cperl-mode

Type in a short program, e.g.

#!/usr/bin/perl

if (scalar @ARGV)
{
 print "indentation test here\n";
}

Does line 5 not indent when you hit TAB?  It does for me.

Ted