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in thread Some thoughts around the "is Perl code maintainable" discussion

yet i've never seen an editor get it right for perl

I've been more than happy with emacs's cperl-mode (and mostly happy with perl-mode) syntax highlighting. So IMO emacs gets it right.

grep

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Re^4: Some thoughts around the "is Perl code maintainable" discussion
by erroneousBollock (Curate) on Aug 12, 2007 at 06:50 UTC
    Open up the source of SOAP::Transport::HTTP... does it look OK to you? (Scroll through the whole file)

    Seems really screwed here.

    YMMV.

    -David

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      I assume you didn't expect me to actually look... but I did.

      I used SOAP version 0.28, emacs 21.4.1 with it's current version of cperl-mode.
      I looked at

      • SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Apache
      • SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI
      • SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client
      • SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server
      I saw no mistakes in syntax highlighting. So unless you have a specific complaint, I would suggest checking out your assertion before you post. I'll be quite happy to post screen shots if needed.

      grep

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        I just scrolled through the whole file.
        I have almost the same versions.
        I see breakage that seems to be caused by mis-parses of string termination... not vim-bad... but still broken ;)
        Could you post that screenshot somewhere so that I may compare it?

        Update: Is it possible that I've mis-configured something and it's falling back to perl-mode ?

        I'll be the first to admit I'm not an emacs expert. Only really been using it for 3 months (to play with lisp and slime).

        I'm much more comfortable in vim (even with its really weak syntax-highlighting). I've been using it for 10+ years so it's just what I'm used to i guess. My fingers are still not used to hitting the control/alt-keys so much.

        Update 2:
        Nevermind. It seems my lisp skills are quite sub-par :(

        Latest ntemacs and latest cperl-mode (+ actually following instructions) seems quite fine.

        Thanks grep, for making me check my facts!

        -David.

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