marc@athena.mit.edu (03/20/90)
Has anybody written a perl-mode for elisp? Some of the problems people have come up with for the novice user contest, especially omitted ; and mismatched {} would be solved by an intelligent perl-mode in emacs. Sorry for those of you who can't use emacs. So, has anybody hacked up a perl-mode for emacs yet? Marc Horowitz
piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (03/20/90)
In article <1990Mar19.174345.13395@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>, marc@athena writes:
`Has anybody written a perl-mode for elisp? Some of the problems
`people have come up with for the novice user contest, especially
`omitted ; and mismatched {} would be solved by an intelligent
`perl-mode in emacs. Sorry for those of you who can't use emacs.
`
I use c-mode. The perl syntax is rather C-ish.
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dovich@uunet.uu.net (Steven J. Dovich) (03/21/90)
I have a perl-mode.el for GNU Emacs that I have derived from the c-mode.el distributed with the sources. Because of its derivation, this elisp source is copylefted. Features: * use of c-mode style parameters, for C-like indentation. * calls both 'c-mode-hook, and 'perl-mode-hook. From my .emacs file: (setq perl-mode-hook '(lambda () (goto-line 2) (if (not (re-search-backward "^#!/util/bin/perl" nil t)) (progn (goto-char 1) (insert "#!/util/bin/perl") (newline) (goto-char 1) )) )) This hook function installs the interpreter exec directive into the script file, if it isn't already there. Caveats: * The '$' character is treated as an ESCAPE syntax class, to remove comment status from the '#' charater in array length expressions. * Regular expressions are still an open issue for this perl-mode (since the RE delimiters can be nearly any character). The good news is that perl-mode does the right thing most of the time. -- Steven J. Dovich <uunet.uu.net!cadence!gda!dovich> Cadence Design Systems 2 Lowell Research Center Dr. Lowell, MA 01852-4995 Phone: (508) 458-1900 x272