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in reply to c-perl mode on Emacs

I don't use emacs, but I can google :)
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PerlMode
If you are having problems because lone apostrophes (’) confuse Perl mode, add a #’ at the end of the offending line. That helps a lot.