Re: cperl-mode and fontlock

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:

> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> writes:
>>
>>> On 2009-09-26, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>>>> Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>   a) cperl-mode distributed with RMS Emacs is completely borken.  See
>>>>>      "my" versions;
>>>> Ilya, sorry I don't know enough to know the answer to this but can I
>>>> safely ignore the list of warnings I get when byte compiling your most
>>>> recent (6.2) version (using emacs-23 from cvs).
>>> I would not know.  The newest version around is about 21.  My
>>> workhorse version is v19.  ;-)
>>
>> Where are these version numbers located?  On your site I see numbers
>> like: [...] 6.1, 6.2
>>
>> Inside I don't see a version number like 19,20,21 etc either.
>>
>> There it says:
>> ;; $Id: cperl-mode.el,v 6.2 2008/04/14 23:14:52 vera Exp vera $
>>
>> Is there another place besides:
>> http://math.berkeley.edu/~ilya/software/emacs/
>>
>> Where versions with numbers like 19 or 21 are kept?
>
> Ilya must be referring to Emacs versions. His workhorse version just turned 13
> years old: the last Emacs 19 release (19.34b) was September 6, 1996!
>
> If he's maintaining his cperl-mode for other users, I wonder what percentage
> of them are using Emacs 19, ..., 23 (23.1 was released on July 29, 2009).

Hehe... it never even occurred to me he might mean emacs versions...