On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Kenneth Graves wrote:
> Hmm? Has plain perl-mode gotten some recent upgrades I haven't paid
> attention to? I find cperl-mode understands more perl constructs.
> And I like its default indentation better than perl-mode's.
>From v19 to v20 perl-mode seemed to get quite an overhaul. Among 20.x
releases I haven't noticed anything drastic.
Admittedly, cperl-mode does understand more perl constructs than
perl-mode (particularly the different forms of quoting). Every once
in a while, I'll find myself needing to do things like
# ' <- appease font-lock or
m/\"/ (unnecessary backslash)
So what's the selling point of perl-mode? Out of the box, I find it
much easier to read; some of cperl's low-contrast highlightings are
just a little hard on my eyes. I could never get used to the
trailing-underline-as-you-type thing either.
Being somewhat of a tweaker, I've spent quite a bit of time tinkering
with settings for both. With cperl-mode, I never got things to the
point where I was happy. With perl-mode, I did it in three lines:
(setq perl-indent-level 2)
(setq perl-continued-statement-offset 2)
(setq perl-continued-brace-offset -2)
(Cuts the indentation level in half for the most part).
--
Steve Revilak
