I'm afraid the patch does not appear to do anything. Same symptoms.
Same procedure was used to reproduce, using a patched cperl-mode.el instead (I made sure it was not loading the old elc, I moved it elsewhere).
Jean-Christophe Petkovich
> Emacs hangs on the creation of a newline with evil-ret when in a cperl
> buffer with some POD documentation after the __END__. This doesn't
> appear to be a bug in evil, but instead a bug in cperl or
> syntax-propertize,
> but I can't tell for sure.
Before I dive further into this, can you first check whether the bug-fix
for bug#11739 (see patch below) happens to fix your problem as well?
Stefan
=== modified file 'lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el'
--- lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el 2012-01-19 07:21:25 +0000
+++ lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el 2012-07-06 20:57:58 +0000
@@ -8951,14 +8951,15 @@
(setq cperl-syntax-done-to (min cperl-syntax-done-to beg))))
(defun cperl-update-syntaxification (from to)
- (if (and cperl-use-syntax-table-text-property
- cperl-syntaxify-by-font-lock
- (or (null cperl-syntax-done-to)
- (< cperl-syntax-done-to to)))
- (progn
- (save-excursion
- (goto-char from)
- (cperl-fontify-syntaxically to)))))
+ (cond
+ ((not cperl-use-syntax-table-text-property) nil)
+ ((fboundp 'syntax-propertize) (syntax-propertize to))
+ ((and cperl-syntaxify-by-font-lock
+ (or (null cperl-syntax-done-to)
+ (< cperl-syntax-done-to to)))
+ (save-excursion
+ (goto-char from)
+ (cperl-fontify-syntaxically to)))))
(defvar cperl-version
(let ((v "Revision: 6.2"))