Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:39:16AM -0500, Jesse Jacobsen wrote:
> On 05/23/00, John S Jacobs Anderson addressed "Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?":
> > on 5/23/00 9:57 AM, Keith G. Murphy at keithmur@mindspring.com wrote:
> > > This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've noticed vim's
> > > Perl syntax highlighting to be, hmmm, not always what it should be. (As
> > > some have said, only perl can parse Perl). Any opinions on which editor
> > > has the *best* Perl syntax highlighting?
> >
> > (X)Emacs with CPerl mode.
>
> Even that's not, hmmm, what it should be. Cases that come to mind are
> certain regular expressions and here documents. Unless I've been
> using a different Perl mode in Emacs.
It's possible. There's "perl-mode" and there's "cperl-mode". I
prefer that latter, although the highlighting is not perfect.
-Michael
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