From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Cperl-mode does not highlight function names properly Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:33:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87fyzkgi70.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87r7j3spd4.fsf@marant.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109464468 12709 80.91.229.2 (27 Feb 2005 00:34:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:34:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 27 01:34:27 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5CO6-0008BV-I7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:34:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5Cd2-0003hV-Lx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:49:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D5Ccg-0003Vo-Ob for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:49:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D5CcZ-0003RV-AZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:49:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5CcZ-0003Po-56 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:49:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D5CMw-0000f7-0F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:33:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D5CMv-0002Cn-Hd; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:33:09 -0500 Original-To: =?iso-8859-15?q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?= In-reply-to: <87r7j3spd4.fsf@marant.org> (message from =?iso-8859-15?q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?= on Sat, 26 Feb 2005 09:21:43 +0100) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:10812 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:10812 Speaking of perl-mode, Richard told me that this mode is obsolete and shall be deprecated. I hoped that CPerl mode would always be better than Perl mode, but that turned out not to be the case (not yet). And the author of CPerl mode lost interested in maintaining it. So unless someone else takes it over and fixes the problems, we cannot consider Perl mode obsolete.