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Merge from upstream, upto version 5.22. After 5.0: `cperl-add-tags-recurse-noxs-fullpath': new function (for -batch mode) After 5.1: ;; Major edit. Summary of most visible changes: ;; a) Multiple <<HERE per line allowed. ;; b) Handles multiline subroutine declaration headers (with comments). ;; (The exception is `cperl-etags' - but it is not used in the rest ;; of the mode.) ;; c) Fontifies multiline my/our declarations (even with comments, ;; and with legacy `font-lock'). ;; d) Major speedup of syntaxification, both immediate and postponed ;; (3.5x to 15x [for different CPUs and versions of Emacs] on the ;; huge real-life document I tested). ;; e) New bindings, edits to imenu. ;; f) "_" is made into word-char during fontification/syntaxification; ;; some attempts to recognize non-word "_" during other operations too. ;; g) Detect bug in Emacs with `looking-at' inside `narrow' and bulk out. ;; h) autoload some more perldoc-related stuff ;; i) Some new convenience features: ISpell POD/HEREDOCs, narrow-to-HEREDOC ;; j) Attempt to incorporate XEmacs edits which reached me Fine-grained changelog: `cperl-hook-after-change': New configuration variable `cperl-vc-sccs-header': Likewise. `cperl-vc-sccs-header': Likewise. `cperl-vc-header-alist': Default via two preceding variables `cperl-invalid-face': Remove double quoting under XEmacs (still needed under 21.2) `cperl-tips': Update URLs for resources `cperl-problems': Likewise. `cperl-praise': Mention new features New C-c key bindings: for `cperl-find-bad-style', `cperl-pod-spell', `cperl-here-doc-spell', `cperl-narrow-to-here-doc', `cperl-perdoc', `cperl-perldoc-at-point' CPerl Mode menu changes: "Fix style by spaces", "Imenu on Perl Info" moved, new submenu of Tools with Ispell entries and narrowing. `cperl-after-sub-regexp': New defsubst `cperl-imenu--function-name-regexp-perl': Use `cperl-after-sub-regexp', Allows heads up to head4 Allow "package;" `defun-prompt-regexp': Use `cperl-after-sub-regexp', `paren-backwards-message': ??? Something for XEmacs??? `cperl-mode': Never auto-switch abbrev-mode off Try to allow '_' be non-word char Do not use `font-lock-unfontify-region-function' on XEmacs Reset syntax cache on mode start Support multiline facification (even on legacy `font-lock') `cperl-facemenu-add-face-function': ??? Some contributed code ??? `cperl-after-change-function': Since `font-lock' and `lazy-lock' refuse to inform us whether the fontification is due to lazy calling or due to edit to a buffer, install our own hook (controlled by `cperl-hook-after-change') `cperl-electric-pod': =cut may have been recognized as start `cperl-block-p': Moved, updated for attributes `cperl-calculate-indent': Try to allow '_' be non-word char Support subs with attributes `cperl-where-am-i': Queit (?) a warning `cperl-cached-syntax-table' New function `cperl-forward-re': Use `cperl-cached-syntax-table' `cperl-unwind-to-safe': Recognize `syntax-type' property changing in a middle of line `cperl-find-sub-attrs': New function `cperl-find-pods-heres': Allow many <<EOP per line Allow subs with attributes Major speedups (3.5x..15x on a real-life test file nph-proxy.pl) Recognize "extproc " (OS/2) case-folded and only at start /x on s///x with empty replacement was not recognized Better comments `cperl-after-block-p': Remarks on diff with `cperl-block-p' Allow subs with attributes, labels Do not confuse "else::foo" with "else" Minor optimizations... `cperl-after-expr-p': Try to allow '_' be non-word char `cperl-fill-paragraph': Try to detect a major bug in Emacs with `looking-at' inside `narrow' and bulk out if found `cperl-imenu--create-perl-index': Updates for new `cperl-imenu--function-name-regexp-perl' `cperl-outline-level': Likewise. `cperl-init-faces': Allow multiline subroutine headers and my/our declarations, and ones with comments Allow subroutine attributes `cperl-imenu-on-info': Better docstring. `cperl-etags' Rudimentary support for attributes Support for packages and "package;" `cperl-add-tags-recurse-noxs': Better (?) docstring `cperl-add-tags-recurse-noxs-fullpath': Likewise. `cperl-tags-hier-init': Misprint for `fboundp' fixed `cperl-not-bad-style-regexp': Try to allow '_' be non-word char `cperl-perldoc': Add autoload `cperl-perldoc-at-point': Likewise. `cperl-here-doc-spell': New function `cperl-pod-spell': Likewise. `cperl-map-pods-heres': Likewise. `cperl-get-here-doc-region': Likewise. `cperl-font-lock-fontify-region-function': Likewise (backward compatibility for legacy `font-lock') `cperl-font-lock-unfontify-region-function': Fix style `cperl-fontify-syntaxically': Recognize and optimize away deferred calls with no-change. Governed by `cperl-hook-after-change' `cperl-fontify-update': Recognize that syntaxification region can be larger than fontification one. XXXX we leave `cperl-postpone' property, so this is quadratic... `cperl-fontify-update-bad': Temporary placeholder until it is clear how to implement `cperl-fontify-update'. `cperl-time-fontification': New function `attrib-group': New text attribute `multiline': New value: `syntax-type' text attribute After 5.2: `cperl-emulate-lazy-lock': New function `cperl-fontify-syntaxically': Would skip large regions Add `cperl-time-fontification', `cperl-emulate-lazy-lock' to menu Some globals were declared, but uninitialized After 5.3, 5.4: `cperl-facemenu-add-face-function': Add docs, fix U<> Copyright message updated. `cperl-init-faces': Work around a bug in `font-lock'. May slow facification down a bit. Misprint for my|our|local for old `font-lock' "our" was not fontified same as "my|local" Highlight variables after "my" etc even in a middle of an expression Do not facify multiple variables after my etc unless parentheses are present After 5.5, 5.6 `cperl-fontify-syntaxically': after-change hook could reset `cperl-syntax-done-to' to a middle of line; unwind to BOL. After 5.7: `cperl-init-faces': Allow highlighting of local ($/) `cperl-problems-old-emaxen': New variable (for the purpose of DOCSTRING). `cperl-problems': Remove fixed problems. `cperl-find-pods-heres': Recognize #-comments in m##x too Recognize charclasses (unless delimiter is \). `cperl-fontify-syntaxically': Unwinding to safe was done in wrong order `cperl-regexp-scan': Update docs `cperl-beautify-regexp-piece': use information got from regexp scan After 5.8: Major user visible changes: Recognition and fontification of character classes in RExen. Variable indentation of RExen according to groups `cperl-find-pods-heres': Recognize POSIX classes in REx charclasses Fontify REx charclasses in variable-name face Fontify POSIX charclasses in "type" face Fontify unmatched "]" in function-name face Mark first-char of HERE-doc as `front-sticky' Reset `front-sticky' property when needed `cperl-calculate-indent': Indents //x -RExen accordning to parens level `cperl-to-comment-or-eol': Recognize ends of `syntax-type' constructs `cperl-backward-to-noncomment': Recognize stringy `syntax-type' constructs Support `narrow'ed buffers. `cperl-praise': Remove a reservation `cperl-make-indent': New function `cperl-indent-for-comment': Use `cperl-make-indent' `cperl-indent-line': Likewise. `cperl-lineup': Likewise. `cperl-beautify-regexp-piece': Likewise. `cperl-contract-level': Likewise. `cperl-toggle-set-debug-unwind': New function New menu entry for this `fill-paragraph-function': Use when `boundp' `cperl-calculate-indent': Take into account groups when indenting RExen `cperl-to-comment-or-eol': Recognize # which end a string `cperl-modify-syntax-type': Make only syntax-table property non-sticky `cperl-fill-paragraph': Return t: needed for `fill-paragraph-function' `cperl-fontify-syntaxically': More clear debugging message `cperl-pod2man-build-command': XEmacs portability: check `Man-filter-list' `cperl-init-faces': More complicated highlight even on XEmacs (new) Merge cosmetic changes from XEmacs After 5.9: `cperl-1+': Moved to before the first use `cperl-1-': Likewise. After 5.10: This code may lock Emacs hard!!! Use on your own risk! `cperl-font-locking': New internal variable `cperl-beginning-of-property': New function `cperl-calculate-indent': Use `cperl-beginning-of-property' instead of `previous-single-property-change' `cperl-unwind-to-safe': Likewise. `cperl-after-expr-p': Likewise. `cperl-get-here-doc-region': Likewise. `cperl-font-lock-fontify-region-function': Likewise. `cperl-to-comment-or-eol': Do not call `cperl-update-syntaxification' recursively Bound `next-single-property-change' via `point-max' `cperl-unwind-to-safe': Bound likewise `cperl-font-lock-fontify-region-function': Likewise. `cperl-find-pods-heres': Mark as recursive for `cperl-to-comment-or-eol' Initialization of `cperl-font-lock-multiline-start' could be missed if the "main" fontification did not run due to the keyword being already fontified. `cperl-pod-spell': Return t from do-one-chunk function `cperl-map-pods-heres': Stop when the worker returns nil Call `cperl-update-syntaxification' `cperl-get-here-doc-region': Call `cperl-update-syntaxification' `cperl-get-here-doc-delim': Remove unused function After 5.11: The possible lockup of Emacs (introduced in 5.10) fixed `cperl-unwind-to-safe': `cperl-beginning-of-property' won't return nil `cperl-syntaxify-for-menu': New customization variable `cperl-select-this-pod-or-here-doc': New function `cperl-get-here-doc-region': Extra argument Do not adjust pos by 1 New menu entries (Perl/Tools): Selection of current POD or HERE-DOC section (Debugging CPerl:) backtrace on fontification After 5.12: `cperl-cached-syntax-table': use `car-safe' `cperl-forward-re': Remove spurious argument SET-ST Add documentation `cperl-forward-group-in-re': New function `cperl-find-pods-heres': Find and highlight (?{}) blocks in RExen (XXXX Temporary (?) hack is to syntax-mark them as comment) After 5.13: `cperl-string-syntax-table': Make { and } not-grouping (Sometimes they ARE grouping in RExen, but matching them would only confuse in many situations when they are not) `beginning-of-buffer': Replaced two occurences with goto-char... `cperl-calculate-indent': `char-after' could be nil... `cperl-find-pods-heres': REx can start after "[" too Hightlight (??{}) in RExen too `cperl-maybe-white-and-comment-rex': New constant `cperl-white-and-comment-rex': Likewise. XXXX Not very efficient, but hard to make better while keeping 1 group After 5.13: `cperl-find-pods-heres': $foo << identifier() is not a HERE-DOC Likewise for 1 << identifier After 5.14: `cperl-find-pods-heres': Different logic for $foo .= <<EOF etc Error-less condition-case could fail `cperl-font-lock-fontify-region-function': Likewise. `cperl-init-faces': Likewise. After 5.15: `cperl-find-pods-heres': Support property REx-part2 `cperl-calculate-indent': Likewise. Don't special-case REx with non-empty 1st line `cperl-find-pods-heres': In RExen, highlight non-literal backslashes Invert highlighting of charclasses: now the envelop is highlighted Highlight many others 0-length builtins `cperl-praise': Mention indenting and highlight in RExen After 5.15: `cperl-find-pods-heres': Highlight capturing parens in REx After 5.16: `cperl-find-pods-heres': Highlight '|' for alternation Initialize `font-lock-warning-face' if not present `cperl-find-pods-heres': Use `font-lock-warning-face' instead of `font-lock-function-name-face' `cperl-look-at-leading-count': Likewise. `cperl-find-pods-heres': localize `font-lock-variable-name-face' `font-lock-keyword-face' (needed for batch processing) etc Use `font-lock-builtin-face' for builtin in REx Now `font-lock-variable-name-face' is used for interpolated variables Use "talking aliases" for faces inside REx Highlight parts of REx (except in charclasses) according to the syntax and/or semantic Syntax-mark a {}-part of (?{}) as "comment" (it was the ()-part) Better logic to distinguish what is what in REx `cperl-tips-faces': Document REx highlighting `cperl-praise': Mention REx syntax highlight etc. After 5.17: `cperl-find-sub-attrs': Would not always manage to print error message `cperl-find-pods-heres': localize `font-lock-constant-face' After 5.18: `cperl-find-pods-heres': Misprint in REx for parsing REx Very minor optimization `my-cperl-REx-modifiers-face' got quoted Recognize "print $foo <<END" as HERE-doc Put `REx-interpolated' text attribute if needed `cperl-invert-if-unless-modifiers': New function `cperl-backward-to-start-of-expr': Likewise. `cperl-forward-to-end-of-expr': Likewise. `cperl-invert-if-unless': Works in "the opposite way" too Cursor position on return is on the switch-word Indents comments better `REx-interpolated': New text attribute `cperl-next-interpolated-REx': New function `cperl-next-interpolated-REx-0': Likewise. `cperl-next-interpolated-REx-1': Likewise. "\C-c\C-x", "\C-c\C-y", "\C-c\C-v": New keybinding for these functions Perl/Regexp menu: 3 new entries for `cperl-next-interpolated-REx' `cperl-praise': Mention finded interpolated RExen After 5.19: `cperl-init-faces': Highlight %$foo, @$foo too `cperl-short-docs': Better docs for system, exec `cperl-find-pods-heres': Better detect << after print {FH} <<EOF etc. Would not find HERE-doc ended by EOF without NL `cperl-short-docs': Correct not-doubled \-escapes start block: Put some `defvar' for stuff gone from XEmacs After 5.20: initial comment: Extend copyright, fix email address `cperl-indent-comment-at-column-0': New customization variable `cperl-comment-indent': Indentation after $#a would increasy by 1 `cperl-mode': Make `defun-prompt-regexp' grok BEGIN/END etc `cperl-find-pods-heres': Mark CODE of s///e as `syntax-type' `multiline' `cperl-at-end-of-expr': Would fail if @BAR=12 follows after ";" `cperl-init-faces': If `cperl-highlight-variables-indiscriminately' highlight $ in $foo too (UNTESTED) `cperl-set-style': Docstring missed some available styles toplevel: Menubar/Perl/Indent-Styles had FSF, now K&R Change "Current" to "Memorize Current" `cperl-indent-wrt-brace': New customization variable; the default is as for pre-5.2 version `cperl-styles-entries': Keep `cperl-extra-newline-before-brace-multiline' `cperl-style-alist': Likewise. `cperl-fix-line-spacing': Support `cperl-merge-trailing-else' being nil, and `cperl-extra-newline-before-brace' etc being t `cperl-indent-exp': Plans B and C to find continuation blocks even if `cperl-extra-newline-before-brace' is t After 5.21: Improve some docstrings concerning indentation. `cperl-indent-rules-alist': New variable `cperl-sniff-for-indent': New function name (separated from `cperl-calculate-indent') `cperl-calculate-indent': Separated the sniffer and the indenter; uses `cperl-sniff-for-indent' now `cperl-comment-indent': Test for `cperl-indent-comment-at-column-0' was inverted; Support `comment-column' = 0
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229 have been removed. Cutting and pasting X selections does not support
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230 ``extended segments'', so there are certain coding systems it cannot
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231 handle.
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233 @item
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234 The input methods for Emacs are included in a separate distribution
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235 called ``Leim.'' To use this, you must extract the Leim tar file on
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236 top of the Emacs distribution, into the same directory, before you
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237 build Emacs.
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239 @item
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240 The following input methods have been eliminated: belarusian,
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241 bulgarian-bds, bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng, croatian, dutch,
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242 georgian, latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
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243 latvian-keyboard, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard,
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244 malayalam-inscript, rfc1345, russian-computer, sgml, slovenian,
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245 tamil-inscript ucs, ukrainian-computer, vietnamese-telex, and welsh.
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247 @item
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248 The following language environments have been eliminated: Belarusian,
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249 Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, French, Georgian, Italian,
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250 Latin-6, Latin-7, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Russian, Russian,
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251 Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8, Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Welsh,
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252 and Windows-1255.
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253
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254 @item
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255 The @code{code-pages} library, which contained various 8-bit coding
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256 systems, has been removed.
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258 @item
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259 The Kmacro package has been replaced with a simple and elegant
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260 keyboard macro system. Use @kbd{C-x (} to start a new keyboard macro,
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261 @kbd{C-x )} to end the macro, and @kbd{C-x e} to execute the last
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262 macro. Use @kbd{M-x name-last-kbd-macro} to name the most recently
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263 defined macro.
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265 @item
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266 Emacs no longer displays your breakpoints in the source buffer, so you
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267 have to remember where you left them. It can be difficult to inspect
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268 the state of your debugged program from the command line, so Emacs
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269 tries to demonstrate this in the GUD buffer.
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271 @item
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272 The Calc, CUA, Ibuffer, Ido, Password, Printing, Reveal,
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273 Ruler-mode, SES, Table, Tramp, and URL packages have been removed.
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274 The Benchmark, Cfengine, Conf, Dns, Flymake, Python, Thumbs, and
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275 Wdired modes have also been removed.
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277 @item
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278 The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual and the Introduction to Programming in
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279 Emacs Lisp are now distributed separately, not in the Emacs
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280 distribution.
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282 @item
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283 On MS Windows, there is no longer any support for tooltips, images,
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284 sound, different mouse pointer shapes, or pointing devices with more
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285 than 3 buttons. If you want these features, consider switching to
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286 another operating system. But even if you don't want these features,
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287 you should still switch---for freedom's sake.
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289 @item
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290 Emacs will not use Unicode for clipboard operations on MS Windows.
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292 @item
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293 To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many
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294 other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 21.4.
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295 @end itemize
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297 @ignore
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298 arch-tag: 32932bd9-46f5-41b2-8a0e-fb0cc4caeb29
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299 @end ignore