From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Change line continuation behavior in cperl-mode Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <05382670-9079-428a-a003-969c06e894a5@n2g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <0a96d524-1f23-4fe5-adf1-c69050cf1520@i18g2000prf.googlegroups.com> 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 1237268776 19937 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2009 05:46:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:46:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 06:47:32 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 1LjS9D-0006r7-Lz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:47:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33318 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjS7r-0002n9-Cw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:46:07 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d36g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.175.142 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1237257511 26431 127.0.0.1 (17 Mar 2009 02:38:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d36g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.175.142; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167695 comp.emacs:98013 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:26:13 -0400 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:62993 Archived-At: On Mar 16, 12:08 am, Alex wrote: > XahLeewrote: > > I tried this: > > > #perl > > $some =3D "sme" . > > "what" . > > "that" . > > "and"; > > print $some; > > > but it seems to align? i'm not aware that perl line needs a dot to > > signify continue? can you give a example? > > I'm having the same problem as Steve mentioned and I also noticed that > sometimes it seems to work. Most importantly, I get the staircase effect > inside a sub, but not outside. > Example: > > my $s =3D "this" > . " string" > . " is" > . " long"; > > sub bus { > my $s =3D "this" > . " string" > . " goes on" > . " and on"; > > } I reproduced it. Don't know how to solve. Looks like its by design. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84