Re: cperl-mode and fontlock

[Kevin Rodgers]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> writes:
>
> > On 2009-09-26, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> > > Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> writes:
> > >
> > > >   a) cperl-mode distributed with RMS Emacs is completely borken.  See
> > > >      "my" versions;
> > > Ilya, sorry I don't know enough to know the answer to this but can I
> > > safely ignore the list of warnings I get when byte compiling your most
> > > recent (6.2) version (using emacs-23 from cvs).
> > I would not know.  The newest version around is about 21.  My
> > workhorse version is v19.  ;-)
>
> Where are these version numbers located?  On your site I see numbers
> like: [...] 6.1, 6.2
>
> Inside I don't see a version number like 19,20,21 etc either.
>
> There it says:
> ;; $Id: cperl-mode.el,v 6.2 2008/04/14 23:14:52 vera Exp vera $
>
> Is there another place besides: 
>    http://math.berkeley.edu/~ilya/software/emacs/
>
> Where versions with numbers like 19 or 21 are kept?

Ilya must be referring to Emacs versions. His workhorse version just turned 13
years old: the last Emacs 19 release (19.34b) was September 6, 1996!

If he's maintaining his cperl-mode for other users, I wonder what percentage
of them are using Emacs 19, ..., 23 (23.1 was released on July 29, 2009).

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA