Re: cperl-mode instead of perl-mode?

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> address@hidden (Randal L. Schwartz) (RLS) wrote:

>RLS> All the cool-cats I know have completely abandoned perl-mode
>RLS> for cperl-mode long ago.   Is there any way we can just make
>RLS> that the default instead?  It'd keep me from having to copy
>RLS> this from .emacs to .emacs for each new work environment:

>RLS> (while (let ((pm (rassoc 'perl-mode auto-mode-alist)))
>RLS>   (and pm (setcdr pm 'cperl-mode))))
>RLS> (while (let ((pm (rassoc 'perl-mode interpreter-mode-alist)))
>RLS>   (and pm (setcdr pm 'cperl-mode))))

Cperl-mode itself suggests (defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) which is much
easier. Still necessary to take it with you, but I suppose you want to take
more things from your .emacs with you.

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