[cperl-mode] fontification problem with PODs

[LanX]

Hi

I experienced a problem with the fontification of POD's.

In the following example the second line is not classified as pod but
the keyword "for" is considered part of a loop statement.

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lanx@nc10-ubuntu:~/tmp$ cat perlpod.pm
for (1..9) {print}
=for comment

This B<document> is in Pod format.  To read this, use a Pod formatter,
like "perldoc perlpod".

=cut
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which might be OK since there is an empty line missing between POD and
code.

So adding a newline at the second line should solve the problem, but
doesn't do so!!!


Strangely this problem is NOT present when calling emacs with -Q

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lanx@nc10-ubuntu:~/tmp$ emacs -Q perlpod.pm -f cperl-mode
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So adding the newline solves the problem!
And calling "M-x describe-text-properties" shows that the POD-text is
classified as such.

This emacs is bundled with cperl-mode.5.23.

Now I tried to figure out which cperl-mode version is causing the
problem, since I had 6.2 loaded in my configs.

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lanx@nc10-ubuntu:~/tmp$ emacs -Q -l cperl-mode.el perlpod.pm -f cperl-
mode
lanx@nc10-ubuntu:~/tmp$ ll cperl-mode.el
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lanx lanx 18 2009-10-21 05:51 cperl-mode.el -> cperl-
mode.el.5.24
lanx@nc10-ubuntu:~/tmp$ ll cperl-mode.el*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lanx lanx     18 2009-10-21 05:51 cperl-mode.el -> cperl-
mode.el.5.24
-r-------- 1 lanx lanx 399064 2009-10-21 05:48 cperl-mode.el.5.22
-r-------- 1 lanx lanx 395839 2009-10-21 05:32 cperl-mode.el.5.24
-r-------- 1 lanx lanx 402932 2009-10-21 05:32 cperl-mode.el.6.2
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But it doesn't matter which version I'm loading the problem remains. I
also tried emacs23 instead of emacs22, without success.

It seems that loading another cperl-mode version causes conflicts with
the bundled version!

So effectively one has to stick with the bundled version ... :(

cheers
  Rolf