From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: CPerl and Perl 5.10.x Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:18:08 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87zl9d4bpr.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87d46gatvl.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vdk27czm.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251906147 21705 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2009 15:42:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:42:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 02 17:42:20 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MiryV-0001hd-FR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:42:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54552 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MiryU-0005oH-SN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:42:18 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net Yws95FSwmLx0vIvUMqZM1zjXZTmr+EXEJVs3MhUC1RqV+xJgXObCQrMZDSU4T34xirw7j07abWE+08M0FC7kqbvaT6I/gvFb8ALWs52oMTz0dqJ97jTPArrTGgUy8+IL Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:18:08 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: lzTo1Cuob8TimCue034HUGB4eVH+NCYR0j8KApIkAOU= X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:coB4tqUW9wvfSmfhrK9EA1ft+hg= sha1:FVk1DNK2+T6XAw90FiXJDrwDMps= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: OJBaDpUdHD1VnR1Ve3aGVRsQDktfi/CK9U0WJimV0vs= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172619 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67759 Archived-At: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Ilya Zakharevich wrote: IZ> On 2009-09-01, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >>>> Sorry if I'm being dense: is the Emacs cperl-mode.el out of sync with >>>> Ilya's version? >> IZ> It is "different", and majorly buggy. >> >> So why not update it with your version? Again, sorry if I am missing >> the necessary context, but it seems like a good idea. IZ> They want conformance to non-backward-compatible coding style. "Mine" IZ> cperl-mode.el is backward-compatible. "Their" is conformant, but very IZ> buggy... That's silly. Can this be resolved with a user option? If not, I'll need some more background, what should I search for in emacs-devel? IZ> Given that (AFAIK) 5.10 is now too buggy to be usable, I hesitate to IZ> make the change for 5.10-highlight. If there a way to make "flavors" IZ> of highlights (as in "minor mode" over "major mode") conveniently - IZ> and without a non-necessary slow-down? >> >> Sorry, I don't know the answer, but I'm in favor of using the 5.10 >> highlighting if it must be one or the other. I doubt the difference >> will matter enough to most users, and those who do will probably prefer >> 5.10. IZ> Why? Myself, I did not see 5.10 yet... (Oups, no. In fact I do have a IZ> copy of a binary distribution somewhere on the drive... It is IZ> unzipped, but not installed.) You're not a good sample of Perl programmers (although me and you can definitely make a viable sample of Eastern European Perl programmers with last names starting with "Z"). Ted