Hm. I can't reproduce that one. Do you have a example snippet for that behavior?

That might be just me. I used to write BEGIN: {}; with a semicolon after it, as you can see here, so it was doing something possibly excessive rather than actually wrong.

... and in at least one case things have got much worse, the case where it immediately throws an error about unbalanced parentheses whenever one presses the m or s keys. That should not happen and I can not reproduce it.

I couldn't reproduce it very well under emacs -Q, since it happens sometimes and doesn't happen other times. Here is a screenshot of a case when it happened. But it is reproducibly throwing the error message if I type m/ or tr/ instead of just m. The scrolling happens as well, which is much more annoying than the error message. I remember talking about the annoying error message to Ilya in about 2007 or so on comp.lang.perl.misc.

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