bug#38655: Perl mode: TAB or ; insert unwelcome spaces within string

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> In perl mode try typing
>
> $a="a
> b";
>
> You'll instead end up with
>
> $a="a
>     b";
>
> upon typing the final ";".
>
> OK, fix by removing the spaces perl-mode wrongly inserted it. Then hit
> TAB anywhere on the last line. The wrongful spaces return.
> emacs-version "26.3"

I'm able to reproduce this in Emacs 26.3, but not in Emacs 28.1, so this
has apparently been fixed by now.  Closing.

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