Re: Enhancing cperl-mode

[Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 11:41 AM Harald Jörg <haj@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> writes:

> "live", but it needs preparation.  I made a proof-of-concept, but the
> implementation is crap.  It still hangs around at
> https://github.com/HaraldJoerg/cperl-mode/, but I more or less stopped
> working on it when I started to contribute to the savannah repository.
>

POC is much; thank you, friend I am warned  :D
I will report back.

>
> I'm a bit stuck with indentation, where the code in cperl-mode is
> messy.  Keywords that are followed by a { code block } sometimes need a
> semicolon, and sometimes they don't, and cperl-mode needs to understand
> this in order to decide whether the next line is a continuation line or
> a new statement.

I will come back on this another time (if someone wiser doesn't reveal
more than --I think-- I know before that).

> activities.  I'm also interested to get cperl-mode published via ELPA,
> so that it can be used once Perl 5.38 is out.

Sounds like a good plan and I'm proud to be a part of it <g>

Indeed,
> --
> Cheers,
> haj
Corwin