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bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:16:00 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 12:49:30 +0000
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net,
> monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, 30393@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> > This text is not needed. The original text, which you deleted,
> > described how to avoid a real problem; if that problem no longer
> > exists, we should just delete that text. If that problem does exist
> > in some modes, we should leave that text as it was, with a better
> > description of what modes are still subject to these problems.
>
> > But describing something that is no longer done by Emacs is just waste
> > of paper.
>
> Perhaps the proposed fix was somewhat prolix ("long winded"). But, in a
> sense, we're providing a new feature, the ability to write syntactically
> correct parens. If we don't mention this, people won't notice.
> Occasionally somebody will remember the previous restriction, try to
> look it up in the manual, and end up puzzled.
>
> How about a compromise, and replacing those two long paragraphs with a
> simple sentence such as:
>
> From Emacs 27.1, you can write opening parens at column zero without
> problems.
>
> > Overall, I must say I'm confused regarding the purpose of this patch.
> > What does it try to accomplish?
>
> To note that the documented previous restrictions on parens in column 0
> no longer hold.
The right place for such stuff is in NEWS.
> I suppose we really want to mark this part of the manual as obsolete,
> but we've got no mechanism for doing this. Besides,
> open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start still has _some_ functionality.
The variable should have some minimal description with a note that
using it nowadays is seldom needed. That should be enough to drive
your point home, I think.
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, paulusm, 2018/02/08
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Noam Postavsky, 2018/02/08
- Message not available
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/02/09
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Noam Postavsky, 2018/02/09
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Dmitry Gutov, 2018/02/10
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/02/10
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/10
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/02/11
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure,
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- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/02/14
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/15
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Dmitry Gutov, 2018/02/16
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/02/16
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Dmitry Gutov, 2018/02/16
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/02/17
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Stefan Monnier, 2018/02/10
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/02/11
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Stefan Monnier, 2018/02/11
- bug#30393: 24.4; cperl-mode: indentation failure, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/02/12