For best results apply to an older Emacs the patches from
ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/cperl-mode/patches
-\(this upgrades syntax-parsing abilities of RMS Emaxen v19.34 and
-v20.2 up to the level of RMS Emacs v20.3 - a must for a good Perl
-mode.) You will not get much from XEmacs, it's syntax abilities are
-too primitive.
+\(this upgrades syntax-parsing abilities of Emaxen v19.34 and
+v20.2 up to the level of Emacs v20.3 - a must for a good Perl
+mode.)
Get support packages choose-color.el (or font-lock-extra.el before
19.30), imenu-go.el from the same place. \(Look for other files there
paragraph. Parsing of lines with several <<EOF is not implemented
yet.
-Emacs had a _very_ restricted syntax parsing engine until RMS's Emacs
+Emacs had a _very_ restricted syntax parsing engine until version
20.1. Most problems below are corrected starting from this version of
-Emacs, and all of them should go with RMS's version 20.3. (Or apply
-patches to Emacs 19.33/34 - see tips.) XEmacs is very backward in
-this respect.
+Emacs, and all of them should be fixed in version 20.3. (Or apply
+patches to Emacs 19.33/34 - see tips.)
Note that even with newer Emacsen in some very rare cases the details
of interaction of `font-lock' and syntaxification may be not cleaned
as /($|\\s)/. Note that such a transposition is not always possible.
The solution is to upgrade your Emacs or patch an older one. Note
-that RMS's 20.2 has some bugs related to `syntax-table' text
+that Emacs 20.2 has some bugs related to `syntax-table' text
properties. Patches are available on the main CPerl download site,
and on CPAN.
(defvar cperl-non-problems 'please-ignore-this-line
"As you know from `problems' section, Perl syntax is too hard for CPerl on
older Emacsen. Here is what you can do if you cannot upgrade, or if
-you want to switch off these capabilities on RMS Emacs 20.2 (+patches) or 20.3
+you want to switch off these capabilities on Emacs 20.2 (+patches) or 20.3
or better. Please skip this docs if you run a capable Emacs already.
Most of the time, if you write your own code, you may find an equivalent
as far as bugs reports I see are concerned.")
(defvar cperl-praise 'please-ignore-this-line
- "RMS asked me to list good things about CPerl. Here they go:
+ "Advantages of CPerl mode.
0) It uses the newest `syntax-table' property ;-);