Re: perl mode color highlighting working badly

[Stefan Monnier]

> I am using 22.0.50 emacs and am having odd behavior with perl-mode
> color highlighting.  I may be doing it wrong now since I notice a lot
> of stuff in this version doesn't behave the same as 21.3.

> Here is what I did, which works fine on 21.3

> emacs-22.0.50 -q --no-site-file ~/regress. ~/.emacs

> I went about 75% of the way down into the "regress." file. I then went
> into the .emacs file and did an eval-region on this line

> (global-font-lock-mode t)

> Then back in the "regress." file the coloring of the code is all as if
> it were the text between ""'s

I've also seen similar problems some of which seemed difficult to fix, but
I'd expect the above to work.  I'll have to take a look at it.

> The other thing I notice is that the coloring is done instantly. I thought
> there was a delay so you didn't work the cpu to death as you typed.

Some things are done instantly, not all.  Is you CPU worked to death?


        Stefan