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bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of per
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:09:44 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:59:39 +0000 joe higton <draxil@gmail.com> wrote:
jh> On 2 February 2012 13:25, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>> I don't recall what those drawbacks were -- I never used Perl -- and I
>> don't know if this is still true.
jh> Although this is far from a scientific survey, the discussion which lead to
jh> this bug (which took place on the perl reddit group) seemed to show that
jh> most people now use cperl-mode over perl-mode. And there was some
jh> discussion of the fact that the default of perl-mode was a barrier to new
jh> users getting the best experience.
jh> I could attempt to post in Perl spaces and see if anyone knows what
jh> the shortcomings of cperl-mode might be. Perhaps there will be some
jh> people who remember the orignal concerns were, and whether they were
jh> ever addressed.
I've been using cperl-mode for a while, and it has many enhancements
over perl-mode. Ilya's version has diverged from the cperl-mode in GNU
Emacs, though, and I believe Ilya's version has a slight edge. I
brought that up:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/115635/focus=115643
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/67570/focus=67653
Ilya has not followed up on emacs-devel and neither side seems
interested in an ongoing synchronization.
Ted