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Posted by Ilya Zakharevich on May 1, 2008, 12:23 pm
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Ben Bullock
> > From when updating a copyright message counts as a maintainance?
> Obviously it doesn't, but the file at least appears to be newer than the one
> in the Perl source code.
As I said, in-Perl version is more obsolete. On the other hand, it
causes much fewer problems.
> >>, which works very well - it isn't broken.
> >
> > Says who? Do you monitor for bug reports, and how they are "fixed"?
> I'm only describing my own experience. It isn't "broken" in the sense of
> being unuseable. I'm writing Perl code almost every day & using the
> emacs-source cperl-mode.el, and have yet to notice any serious bugs.
Given the bugs people report with Emacs' version (ALL of which are
fixed by switching to the "genuine" one), you must have pretty high
bugs tolerance...
> The only thing which I've noticed is that it has an annoying habit
> of instantly complaining if it can't find the end of a here string
> or regular expression, which is kind of silly since usually one
> doesn't write the end of the thing immediately after writing the
> beginning of it.
True. Do you have any idea how would I be able to detect this
situation? Point after start of construct and modified, or what?
Can one detect that the ELisp code is called from an async handler?
> >> What it looks like is a fork. But the above comment about
> >> cperl-mode.el in the Emacs tree being out of date and broken is
> >> itself now out of date.
> >
> > I have no idea what you want to say here...
> What I want to say I thought was clear, but apparently not. I raised the
> issue of cperl-mode.el due to the FAQ question apparently being out of date.
> If you have a different story, perhaps you can spell it out for us ignorant
> people.
I think I did.
> Anyway, you're the author of cperl-mode.el, something probably not many
> people noticed from reading the discussion, so thank you for making this
> mode, which is useful to me.
Noted, and very appreciated.
Yours,
Ilya
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