Perl syntax highlighting in (X)Emacs (was Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx 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.
I haven't noticed any issues, but I don't make huge usage of here documents,
and I tend towards non-standard bracketing for regexps, which means I do
explict 'm's for matching. Those two factors might explain why I think it's
satisfactory.
OTOH, IIRC, there is a setting for how 'robust' the syntax parser tries to
be; it's a time/speed tradeoff. I _think_ the default may be less than
completely stringent. If you're really interested, M-x customize RET
cperl-mode should tell all, at least in XEmacs.
john.
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