From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Ekstrand Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: perl-mode vs cperl-mode Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:04:04 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <5b571924-1d5c-4907-b89d-46a5d4087a0d@p28g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249659715 31977 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2009 15:41:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:41:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 07 17:41:49 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 1MZRZX-0005Mi-3e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:41:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZRZW-0005y8-IV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:41:34 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 3k4OpuCxx2rBT/R1RUDefw.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:sSkjUSkky6Tjy9FuAiar3rScAZE= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171762 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:66944 Archived-At: Colin Williams wrote: > I guess I understand that it generally handles quirky syntax "better," > I'm looking more for examples/features that cperl-mode has that > perl-mode fails at. So far we've got regexp and string quoting, are > there any other "useful" features? Regexp alone is enough for me. It actually syntax-highlights the control sequences in the regexp, making it far easier to write them. cperl-mode also distinguishes between hashes, arrays, and scalars, highlighting names appropriately. Makes it easier to see how you're actually using a variable name. I'm not sure to what extent perl-mode does these; I jumped on cperl-mode pretty fast. I don't believe it does either, though. - Michael