From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:58:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8762fmbmwn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <1351159277417-268030.post@n5.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351515530 11203 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2012 12:58:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10688@debbugs.gnu.org, draxil To: Jonathan Rockway Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 29 13:58:57 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TSovc-0008Tt-FY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:58:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34715 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSovU-0004nl-AC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:58:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSovR-0004ng-95 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:58:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSovN-00026W-9t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55611) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSovN-00026S-6h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:58:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TSoxi-00021t-BM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:01:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:01:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10688 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10688-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10688.13515156517784 (code B ref 10688); Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10688) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Oct 2012 13:00:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37629 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TSoxX-00021U-8j for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:00:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:54127) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TSoxV-00021O-Vg for 10688@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:00:50 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu0/O+LET/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIWAQVWIxALDiYSFBgNJIghugmQRAOjM4FYgwU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="203059629" Original-Received: from 206-248-177-19.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.177.19]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 29 Oct 2012 08:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B744C59415; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:58:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Jonathan Rockway's message of "Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:26:15 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:66188 Archived-At: > (I'm somewhat surprised that anyone uses perl-mode; cperl-mode is ... > interesting code-wise, but it does work really, really well.) perl-mode is the default, so you can expect many people to use it. Also, I stick to perl-mode (for the few times I use Perl) because it is the default (dog-fooding and things like that). Also the perl-mode was more amenable to experimentation (I used it as a play ground for the fancier syntactic fontification, e.g. it was a large part of the motivation for font-lock-syntactic-face-function). Stefan