comparison lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el @ 22392:7300e6ab99d2

(cperl-problems): Doc fix.

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(defvar cperl-problems 'please-ignore-this-line
"Some faces will not be shown on some versions of Emacs unless you
install choose-color.el, available from
   ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/emacs/

Emacs had a _very_ restricted syntax parsing engine until RMS's Emacs
20.1.  Most problems below are corrected starting from this version of
Emacs, and all of them should go with (future) RMS's version 20.3.

Note that even with newer Emacsen interaction of `font-lock' and
syntaxification is not cleaned up.  You may get slightly different
colors basing on the order of fontification and syntaxification.  This
might be corrected by setting `cperl-syntaxify-by-font-lock' to t, but
the corresponding code is still extremely buggy.

to insert it as $ {aaa} (legal in perl5, not in perl4). 

Similar problems arise in regexps, when /(\\s|$)/ should be rewritten
as /($|\\s)/.  Note that such a transposition is not always possible.

The solution is to upgrade your Emacs.  Note that RMS's 20.2 has some
bugs related to `syntax-table' text properties.  Patches are available
on the main CPerl download site, and on CPAN.

If these bugs cannot be fixed on your machine (say, you have an inferior
environment and cannot recompile), you may still disable all the fancy stuff

		 (font-lock-mode 1))))
  (and (boundp 'msb-menu-cond)
       (not cperl-msb-fixed)
       (cperl-msb-fix))
  (if (featurep 'easymenu)
      (easy-menu-add cperl-menu))	; A NOP in RMS Emacs.
  (run-hooks 'cperl-mode-hook)
  ;; After hooks since fontification will break this
  (if cperl-pod-here-scan 
      (or (and (boundp 'font-lock-mode)
	       (eval 'font-lock-mode)	; Avoid warning

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(defvar cperl-problems 'please-ignore-this-line
"Some faces will not be shown on some versions of Emacs unless you
install choose-color.el, available from
   ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/emacs/

Even with newer Emacsen interaction of `font-lock' and
syntaxification is not cleaned up.  You may get slightly different
colors basing on the order of fontification and syntaxification.  This
might be corrected by setting `cperl-syntaxify-by-font-lock' to t, but
the corresponding code is still extremely buggy.

to insert it as $ {aaa} (legal in perl5, not in perl4). 

Similar problems arise in regexps, when /(\\s|$)/ should be rewritten
as /($|\\s)/.  Note that such a transposition is not always possible.

The solution is to upgrade your Emacs.  Note 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.

If these bugs cannot be fixed on your machine (say, you have an inferior
environment and cannot recompile), you may still disable all the fancy stuff

		 (font-lock-mode 1))))
  (and (boundp 'msb-menu-cond)
       (not cperl-msb-fixed)
       (cperl-msb-fix))
  (if (featurep 'easymenu)
      (easy-menu-add cperl-menu))	; A NOP in Emacs.
  (run-hooks 'cperl-mode-hook)
  ;; After hooks since fontification will break this
  (if cperl-pod-here-scan 
      (or (and (boundp 'font-lock-mode)
	       (eval 'font-lock-mode)	; Avoid warning