Possible old perl-mode hash indentation bug.

Possible old perl-mode hash indentation bug.

[Rob Browning]

This bug, presuming it is a bug, has been around since at least Emacs
version 20.3.  

Given a hash like this one when in perl-mode:

  %LCDkmaps = (
               'i386' => {
                   'qwerty' => {
                       'US' => { 
                           'Standard' => 'us',
                           'With latin1' => 'us-latin1',
                           },
                       'UK' => 'uk',
                   },
               },
               'sparc' => {
                   'T5' => {

Emacs will over-indent the 'UK' line if you leave out the comma after
'us-latin1'.  (Although Emacs won't over-indent if you leave out the
comma after the 'qwerty' block'.)  Presuming I didn't make any
mistakes, this appears to be repeatable in the current version of
Emacs 21, and in CVS as of Sunday.

(If you can, please maintain the cc to the bug tracker in any followup
messages.  Thanks)

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Re: Possible old perl-mode hash indentation bug.

[Richard Stallman]

Nobody is trying to maintain the indentation code in Perl mode.
There is another mode, CPerl mode, which has smarter indentation code.
We originally hoped to use it to replace Perl mode, but it too has
some problems.  It would be nice if someone wanted to work on these.