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Re: Anyone here tracking Ilya's recent CPerl 5.X updates?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Anyone here tracking Ilya's recent CPerl 5.X updates? |
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Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:14:33 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I don't use CPerl-mode, but I do try and follow its development to
> keep the Emacs version up to date. Currently all I've done is to
> install the version 5.2 and 5.7 on the separate ILYA branch, so I can
> ask CVs to do most of the merge for me. I'm waiting for things to
> stabilize before I install the new code on the trunk.
> What are the things that need to stabilize? It would be very
> good to merge this soon, since we seem to be making progress
> towards the release, and it would be good to have a good CPerl mode
> in it.
The version 5.2 re-structured the font-lock-syntactic-keywords bit which
tries to take care of the screwy Perl syntax. The intention is mostly to
make it (significantly) less slow, as well as slightly more featureful.
I expect this introduced various bugs, and it was indeed quickly followed by
a number of minor releases.
I'll upgrade our version of cperl-mode as soon as I find the time, since
I believe the upstream code has pretty much stabilized now.
> If it works much better than Perl mode, let's make it
> the default mode for Perl.
I must say I personally don't like cperl-mode, which is why I started
working on perl-mode.el (which now has some features which cperl-mode
doesn't, IIRC).
Stefan