Emacs 21.2 align.el - Perl hash element alignment bug

[Jari Aalto+mail.emacs]

(emacs-version)
"GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2002-03-19 on buffy"

    1) M-x cperl-mode
    2) load-library align
    3) Write the above tests

    align.el behaves incorrectly in cperl-mode where the code reads:

        %hash =  ( one => 1
                  , amnMore  => 2
                  , hm => 3
                  , likeThisOne  => 4-!-
                  );               
 
    Position cursor (-!-) anywhere at the end of the above lines and
    call M-x align-newline-and-indent. The problem is that align.el
    seeks first "=":

                %hash           =  ( one => 1
                  , amnMore     => 2
                  , hm          => 3
                  , likeThisOne => 4
                           
                  );

                   
    It should be smarter and align according to "=>". I studied the
    code, but I do not undertand the syntax rules used there enough to
    make any suggestions.

        %hash =  ( one           => 1
                  , andMore      => 2
                  , hm           => 3
                  , likeThisOne  => 4
                  );               

    Jari


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