Re: Please do not deprecate perl-mode in favour of cperl-mode

[Paul W. Rankin]

Very sorry I seem to have lost track of the thread and some issues I 
raised you've already addressed here.

On 2023-12-03 20:10, Harald Jörg wrote:
> A better description would be: deprecate perl-mode.el in favour of
> cperl-mode.el.  It is not intended to make M-x perl-mode go away, but 
> to
> implement its look and feel with cperl-mode.el.
>
> The main motivation for this that maintaining two modes to keep up with
> changes in Perl syntax is not very efficient.

Awesome.

> This is exactly why comments like yours are welcome: I want to know
> which of the differences are annoying for users of Perl mode.
>
> In particular:
>
>  - Code indentation: Both Perl mode and CPerl mode offer several user
>    options to affect indentation (too many of them in CPerl mode IMHO).
>    I am confident that it is possible to mimick Perl mode's default
>    indentation by options.  Concrete examples are very welcome (like
>    those you provided with your next reply).  They will make it into 
> the
>    test suite.
>
>  - TAB for indenting region: That's also something that should be
>    doable.  CPerl mode's behaviour for indent-region is indeed very
>    idiosyncratic (and underdocumented).
>
>  - use of specific faces: This will be fixed in CPerl mode anyway,
>    independent of the deprecation.  This doesn't mean that the rich
>    coloration which some people like will go away, but that all faces
>    will default to font-lock-* faces if cperl-mode.el starts in Perl
>    mode style.

Sounds wonderful :) I can't wait to discover the additions of CPerl 
Mode.