From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does Emacs need two Perl modes?
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 20:15:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87legh7yqv.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16da6ae7-66d8-fc43-cb84-6d104d3a2ef8@mavit.org.uk> (Peter Oliver's message of "Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:14:46 +0100 (BST)")
Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk> writes:
> The recent thread about cperl-mode being improved to understand new
> Perl syntax got me wondering…
>
> Does it still make sense for Emacs to include two different Perl
> modes? Is it time to make cperl-mode the default, and to deprecate
> perl-mode?
I think it makes sense, because otherwise a great deal of our valuable
time will be wasted debating which one to remove.
That alone makes keeping both worthwhile.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-18 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-18 10:14 Does Emacs need two Perl modes? Peter Oliver
2023-06-18 12:15 ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-06-18 12:56 ` Jens Schmidt
2023-06-19 13:01 ` Corwin Brust
2023-06-19 14:34 ` Enhancing cperl-mode (was: Re: Does Emacs need two Perl modes?) Harald Jörg
2023-06-19 14:58 ` Corwin Brust
2023-06-19 16:41 ` Enhancing cperl-mode Harald Jörg
2023-06-19 21:49 ` Corwin Brust
2023-06-20 2:57 ` Does Emacs need two Perl modes? Richard Stallman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87legh7yqv.fsf@yahoo.com \
--to=luangruo@yahoo.com \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.