Are there any pragmas, syntax, comments, or anything that would allow me to disable perltidy's reformatting in a region? Perltidy is fine most of the time but occasionally writes something utterly crapulous. I'd like to add my own whitespace in those cases.

I've instructed emacs to auto-tidy all the perl w/ the following code. I include it a bonus to anyone who reads this.

(defun cperl-save-buffer (&optional args)
  (interactive "p")
  (if (buffer-modified-p)
      (perltidy-buffer))
  (save-buffer t))
(defun perltidy-buffer ()
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (shell-command-on-region
     (point-min) (point-max)
     "perltidy -st" nil t shell-command-default-error-buffer)))
(add-to-list
  'cperl-mode-hook
  (lambda ()
    (substitute-key-definition 'save-buffer 'cperl-save-buffer cperl-m
+ode-map global-map)))

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In reply to Disable perltidy in a region? by diotalevi

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