Probably the most annoying one is that it turns
};
into
}
;

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Hm. I can't reproduce that one. Do you have a example snippet for that behavior?
I have reported bugs in cperl-mode in the past but things don't seem to have improved,...

Well, not yet visible for users of released versions of Emacs. About half a year ago I started to work through the open bugs of CPerl mode, and a dozen or so have been fixed.

If you are running Emacs 26.1 or newer, I'd like to invite you to try the "hot" cperl-mode.el from the Emacs repository. There has been quite some activity recently.

Actually, I am currently working on a patch for indenting issues in CPerl mode. That patch has grown to 600 lines by now and is supposed to cover bugs #11773, #42169, and by accident, also #8077. It is kinda annoying but also kinda nice that new test cases are popping up right now!

... 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. The error message appears only after typing m and an opening delimiter where it is at least technically correct. I haven't experienced any scrolling, though. Do you have some customization for the echo area?

In reply to Re^3: How would you indent this? by haj
in thread How would you indent this? by no longer just digit

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