On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:39:16AM -0500, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > On 05/23/00, John S Jacobs Anderson addressed "Re: Simple Text Editor with > Synatx highlighting?": > > on 5/23/00 9:57 AM, Keith G. Murphy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've noticed vim's > > > Perl syntax highlighting to be, hmmm, not always what it should be. (As > > > some have said, only perl can parse Perl). Any opinions on which editor > > > has the *best* Perl syntax highlighting? > > > > (X)Emacs with CPerl mode. > > Even that's not, hmmm, what it should be. Cases that come to mind are > certain regular expressions and here documents. Unless I've been > using a different Perl mode in Emacs.
It's possible. There's "perl-mode" and there's "cperl-mode". I prefer that latter, although the highlighting is not perfect. -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305