bug#66050: Making perl-mode.el obsolete

[Mauro Aranda]

On 21/9/23 11:20, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> What would be a good way of collecting this information?
>
> I'd say: use `cperl-mode` and report regressions compared to what
> `perl-mode` used to do via `M-x report-emacs-bug`.
>

OK, I'll do that.  But Someone will have to keep track of the bug
reports that need to be handled before calling perl-mode obsolete.

>> 2. While I'm typing the above string, I get messages about string/RE not
>> found:
>> End of ‘q( ... )’ string/RE not found: (scan-error Unbalanced 
parentheses
>> 1092 1874)
>> End of ‘q( ... )’ string/RE not found: (scan-error Unbalanced 
parentheses
>> 1092 1918) [2 times]
>> End of ‘q( ... )’ string/RE not found: (scan-error Unbalanced 
parentheses
>> 1092 1962) [2 times]
>>
>> That's annoying.
>
> Sounds like a bug, eh?

I think so.  I had some time to look into the archived bugs and found
this: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=37127

I don't have time right now to read and understand the whole
conversation, but I think it's related to what I see.