From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Meyering Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing the default perl mode Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:39:05 +0100 Message-ID: <871uqiqx92.fsf@rho.meyering.net> References: <4F239871.90405@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327855157 3566 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2012 16:39:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:39:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Joe Higton , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 29 17:39:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RrXmZ-0000Cu-Lx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:39:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44319 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrXmZ-0002i4-8e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:39:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40553) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrXmX-0002hw-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:39:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrXmV-00069z-Oj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:39:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.meyering.net ([88.168.87.75]:55540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrXmV-00069v-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:39:07 -0500 Original-Received: from rho.meyering.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister) with ESMTP id E240E603F7; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:39:05 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <4F239871.90405@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:40:49 -0800") Original-Lines: 16 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 88.168.87.75 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:148007 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > On 01/27/2012 05:30 AM, Joe Higton wrote: >> What are the chances of changing the default >> emacs mode for Perl to cperl-mode? > > If that's the established favorite, then I'd say the chances > should be fairly good. I suggest filing a bug report (you can > use M-x report-emacs-bug), preferably with a patch; you can then > track its status at . Emacs is > in feature-freeze right now, in preparation for Emacs 24, > so any change wouldn't happen right away. Good idea. Long overdue. It would be good for new Perl/Emacs users everywhere. I've been a happy user of cperl-mode since 1997, and never looked back (so I don't know if perl-mode is now a competitor).