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: CPerl and Perl 5.10.x Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: References: <87d46gatvl.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vdk27czm.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251873679 15415 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2009 06:41:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 06:41:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 02 08:41:13 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 1MijWn-0003Ck-Rx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:41:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58101 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MijWn-0002oF-9E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:41:09 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.mixmin.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19ZB3kFYjqWVn6GT6vDqtRtmWsfhLUELQK+LMrujM9hYjLTutWL7CAKVMUEJZ/U07rB8wWgHmnFRBsQQfKYcIyxAWeW++avVQWhIUDrkn4uAIV7tBbTT/wePDpnJJRiZps= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:52:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1987P79CI07IeXvoRYdDXzPKLuzdPaAsdg= Cancel-Lock: sha1:UwpkIupqv2Rwok+G1wX6eiBR64c= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172584 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:67726 Archived-At: On 2009-09-01, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >>> Sorry if I'm being dense: is the Emacs cperl-mode.el out of sync with >>> Ilya's version? > > IZ> It is "different", and majorly buggy. > > So why not update it with your version? Again, sorry if I am missing > the necessary context, but it seems like a good idea. They want conformance to non-backward-compatible coding style. "Mine" cperl-mode.el is backward-compatible. "Their" is conformant, but very buggy... > IZ> Given that (AFAIK) 5.10 is now too buggy to be usable, I hesitate to > IZ> make the change for 5.10-highlight. If there a way to make "flavors" > IZ> of highlights (as in "minor mode" over "major mode") conveniently - > IZ> and without a non-necessary slow-down? > > Sorry, I don't know the answer, but I'm in favor of using the 5.10 > highlighting if it must be one or the other. I doubt the difference > will matter enough to most users, and those who do will probably prefer > 5.10. Why? Myself, I did not see 5.10 yet... (Oups, no. In fact I do have a copy of a binary distribution somewhere on the drive... It is unzipped, but not installed.) Yours, Ilya