I use Emacs as my primary editing tool. Yesterday I switched from perl-mode to cperl-mode. It's got lots of fancy little bells & whistles. One of the ones I liked was the ability to mark a function and then indent it properly/consistently. I've noticed that it has a VERY bad habit with variable names that contain underscores:

    foreach my $rule_name ( keys %$hash_ref){
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gets converted to:

    foreach my $rule _name ( keys %$hash_ref){
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Notice that it adds a space between "$rule" and "_name" Interestingly, this only seems to occur in "unenclosed" expressions. In other words, this behavior is only exhibited in the foreach statement, not the the enclosed loop. Have any other monks encountered this? Any suggestions for modifying my .emacs to supress this "feature"?

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