From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: perl-mode vs cperl-mode Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 19:56:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249667818 25300 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2009 17:56:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "A.Politz" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 07 19:56:51 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 1MZTgO-0007f4-AF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:56:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55602 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZTgN-0001fd-Dx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:56:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZTfw-0001eK-EQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:56:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZTfq-0001by-Rg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:56:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55855 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZTfq-0001bl-Lq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:56:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f189.google.com ([209.85.211.189]:37176) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MZTfq-0006f4-6n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:56:14 -0400 Original-Received: by ywh27 with SMTP id 27so2320862ywh.26 for ; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:56:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=vT7pHrbcVeeiPkasdkDeLkbywFxQhW7txFIe0kLrhY8=; b=ZOqi0UR8HcPsMs/8g/12kFUnOyzRWiLnWUQb0tH0vOZFe4M2j5OxteW1+o27v51aXy LGDUeIAm+HCo22LebkKDDWYA+AAin91LIAqKp4Oulx/D5dBvAme5lt6cFv4n4VuTQ7rV lZrEl9mKSzcTsRM4FhCB79q8brgWeONjdnNnE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EUFMwbuDfFPs9N/MlmkjqSxoJ210dxsnuha9UDMfaC3wcmkVRDTQncN2++Ru/Hr7IQ jx1VvH5MoXOAUURng4PNzvNMA1Xh+Lr4ZTY6Hi0eDCupEzHzly9NUHPAg88VYrW5+2bC mY7yrypqNoSOdQB3Wg5E9um6bLmEW4J3hS7qU= Original-Received: by 10.100.127.17 with SMTP id z17mr669593anc.153.1249667771073; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:56:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:66949 Archived-At: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM, A.Politz wrote: > On Aug 7, 6:36=C2=A0pm, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: > >> >> In CPerl menu Mini-docs, there is the description of one half of your >> question. =C2=A0The other half would probably remain a mystery forever..= . >> > > That's a dull statement to be made in a forum that deals with > open source software. It may be true, that everybody who had > ever used perl-mode is already dead, but the code is there > and can be investigated and compared until the end of time > (when skynet takes over, you know). > > Measuring by the number of commands a mode provides, > perl-mode sucks, with only 9 commands, and cperl-mode is > more than 6 times better (62 commands). A lot of measures could be made and some are worse than others... I guess you don't believe that just a number of anything is ever useful, or? Of course I know a lot of people expect any number to be useful because it is accurate or something, but... ;-)