Re: Cperl-mode does not highlight function names properly

[Radomir Hejl]

"Jérôme Marant" <jerome@marant.org> pí¹e v diskusním pøíspìvku 
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> In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll 
> bars)
> of 2005-02-06 on voltaire, modified by Debian
> configured using `configure '--build=powerpc-linux' '--host=powerpc-linux' 
> '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' 
> '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
> '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--with-x=yes' 
> '--with-x-toolkit=athena' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 
> 'build_alias=powerpc-linux' 'host_alias=powerpc-linux''
> Important settings:
>  value of $LC_ALL: nil
>  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>  value of $LC_TIME: nil
>  value of $LANG: fr_FR@euro
>  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
>  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
> Hi,
>
> Cperl-mode does not highlight properly function names that contain
> Perl keywords.
>
> Here is a test case.
>
> ------------
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> sub test_read_file ()
>  {
>
>  }
>
> sub func ()
>  {
>
>  }
>
> ------------
>
> You will notice that 'read' in test_read_file is highlighted as
> a keyword whereas 'func' is hightlighted as a function name.
>
> I could reproduce the problem with current CVS trunk as well.
>
> Cheers,
>

Hi,
I use GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600). The highlighting
issues were true for 4.23 cperl-mode which was the version I've had
to date. Now I have cperl 5.0 and the mentioned bug (and others) is gone. 
But
this newest cperl version is not included in emacs distribution
(even in 21.4.2).

Radek H.