Re: cperl-mode and emacs-21.4 brocken?

From: Mike Dowling (mike53_at_moocow.tu-bs.de)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: 19 Feb 2005 15:23:53 GMT

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:18:44 +0000 (UTC), Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> wrote:
> [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
> Mike Dowling
><fake@tu-bs.de>], who wrote in article <slrnd1bmnm.q7.mike53@moocow.localhost>:
>> I had no problems with cperl-mode with emacs-21.3.
>> With emacs-21.4, it still works, but only if started manually (M-x
>> cperl-mode). Starting automaticall with
>>
>> (autoload 'perl-mode "cperl-mode" "alternate mode for editing Perl
>> programs" t)
>>
>> in the .emacs file fails. Instead, I get the message:
>>
>> File mode specification error: (error "Autoloading failed to define
>> function perl-mode")
>
> Maybe you are using "my" cperl-mode.el with 21.3, and "their" with
> 21.4? IIRC, with "their" version you need a different way to
> auto-associate, since it won't overwrite perl-mode...

Perhaps! I used the cperl-mode that came with emacs ("theirs") but it
appeared to have been authored by you, but its probabale old. Where can
I get the latest version, could you perhaps post it here?

Here's the blurb in the commentary in the beginning:

;;; cperl-mode.el --- Perl code editing commands for Emacs

;; Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 1997
;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson
;; Maintainer: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
;; Keywords: languages, Perl

So it looks like it's yours, but

(defvar cperl-tips 'please-ignore-this-line
  "Get newest version of this package from
  ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/emacs
and/or
  ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/perl
Subdirectory `cperl-mode' may contain yet newer development releases
  and/or
patches to related files.

For best results apply to an older Emacs the patches from
  ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/cperl-mode/patches
\(this upgrades syntax-parsing abilities of RMS Emaxen v19.34 and
v20.2 up to the level of RMS Emacs v20.3 - a must for a good Perl
mode.) You will not get much from XEmacs, its syntax abilities are
too primitive.
 
But these FTP URLs apparently no longer exist, so I deduce the
cperl-mode distributed with emacs is ancient. A google search for more
recent sources drew a blank.

Cheers,
Mike Dowling 

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