Hi

I'm dealing with a lot of legacy code with slightly invalid POD markup.

(It's used as pure multiline documentation without being ever processed by a POD parser, but is still properly ignored by the Perl parser.)

Especially newlines are missing around =POD lines, most "newer" POD parsers are quite tolerant about it.

=h1 -------------------------------------------------------
    DEFAULT_getaction
        => bla bla
        => blubber di blub
=cut ------------------------------------------------------
sub DEFAULT_getaction{
    my( $cmd, $sth, @row , $jahrpr ) ;
    # ...
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Problem is I need to read this code and cperl-mode is pretty strict about the specifications and stops syntax highlighting of the code thinking it still belongs to POD.

Does anyone know a quick hack to make cperl-mode equally tolerant and parse according to Perl and not according to POD-specifications? (like Komodo does).

(no I can't change the old codebase yet to valid POD)

PS: see also

Re: POD troubles

Re: POD troubles

(cperl-mode) fontification problem with PODs

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In reply to [Emacs] patching cperl-mode to highlight syntax without POD newlines by LanX

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