Hello,

I am trying to use the newest version of cperl-mode and, although I am not getting errors, I still don’t think it’s loaded correctly.  I downloaded the cperl-mode.el file from http://github.com/jrockway/cperl-mode and placed it in my elisp directory. 

What gets me is that when I check the version (C-h v cperl-version) it says 4.23, which is the same version number that my emacs originally came with. 

Is there anything in particular that I should notice different between v4.23 and the current version at the website above?

On a side note, in my .emacs file, I notice that if I put the require statement after the ‘add-to-list’ command that I get an error: ‘error: "Invalid escape character syntax"’.  That doesn’t seem right to me, but when I switched the order of the two it went away, so I left it like that.

Here is my .emacs file:

####################################################################################

;; .emacs

(require 'cperl-mode)

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp")

;; ---- CPERL MODE ----- ;;

;;; cperl-mode is preferred to perl-mode

;;; "Brevity is the soul of wit" <foo at acm.org>

(defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode)

;;; uncomment this line to disable loading of "default.el" at startup

;; (setq inhibit-default-init t)

;; turn on font-lock mode

(when (fboundp 'global-font-lock-mode)

  (global-font-lock-mode t))

;; enable visual feedback on selections

;(setq transient-mark-mode t)

;; default to better frame titles

(setq frame-title-format

      (concat  "%b - emacs@" (system-name)))

;; default to unified diffs

(setq diff-switches "-u")

;; always end a file with a newline

;(setq require-final-newline 'query)

(custom-set-variables

  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!

  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.

 '(comment-column 80)

 '(truncate-partial-width-windows t))

(custom-set-faces

  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!

  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.

 )

####################################################################################

Thank you for your help J

-eric