From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ilya Zakharevich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: perl-mode vs cperl-mode Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:36:13 +0000 (UTC) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249663256 10803 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2009 16:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:40:56 +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 18:40:49 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 1MZSUm-0007qQ-3q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:40:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57038 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZSUl-0002Ky-DN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:40:43 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18zMxUYGzXHK4wW8PIXijDpVzH3j+XI4+iNKjT1twgGhZH/UEgLw6CkZJXKxFvaLKQE8YB620/BaZUib5uAasTqWZOzV3cS7YBa/bR9MnN3HbkR8/Rzi7qYB2zKTk/iRdxNa4qaUWqIkg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:36:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX182JlfWfTJQAPLC0lGcpe2iPOhq2a/eCBY= Cancel-Lock: sha1:uu3dFDApMeR4Ml4WhcVc5G9k3a8= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171766 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:66947 Archived-At: On 2009-08-07, Colin Williams wrote: > I'm trying to decide how to set up my perl development environment, > and I've come to a bit of a conundrum. I realize that there is both a > `perl-mode' and a `cperl-mode' lying around in the emacs code base, > but it's unclear to me which one is better. Many people have said > (rather authoritatively, I might add) that `cperl-mode' is much > better, but none of these people bother to list the ways in which it's > better. I was hoping somebody could categorically list the features > `cperl-mode' has that make it better than `perl-mode'. I (obviously ;-) tried to investigate this topic, and now I'm pretty sure that nobody would be able to answer your question. This is the standard gnoseological problem: it is many years now that I did not see people with clue (e.g., about cperl-mode) who know how perl-mode works... In CPerl menu Mini-docs, there is the description of one half of your question. The other half would probably remain a mystery forever... Hope this helps, Ilya