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bug#8165: cperl-mode: The wanted indentation is available via customize
From: |
Harald Jörg |
Subject: |
bug#8165: cperl-mode: The wanted indentation is available via customize |
Date: |
Tue, 1 Sep 2020 20:15:52 +0200 |
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On 9/1/20 7:12 PM, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Harald Jörg <haj@posteo.de> writes:
>
>> Therefore I suggest to close this bug.
>
> Done.
>
> You can just add -done to the bug number in the address if you would
> like to do it yourself next time. See the To-field of this message.
Thank you for this hint. I wasn't aware of that.
>> These are also the recommended settings in the most influential book
>> Perl Best Practices (PBP) by Damian Conway. I guess I should add
>> the PBP settings for indentation in a new value to cperl-style-alist,
>> but that's probably beyond the scope of this bug report.
>
> It sounds like a good idea to add such an option.
>
> Just a thought: I seem to remember that the PBP recommendations is the
> generally accepted style in the Perl community these days? Does it make
> sense to change that to be the default? (It's been over 10 years since
> I did any serious Perl programming...)
I would be absolutely fine with making the PBP recommendations the
default. By now, the book is 13 years old and some of its content
is no longer generally accepted - but as far as I can say, the
indentation rules haven't seen any criticism. And though Damian is
a vim wizard, his book lists the Emacs variables which match his
recommendations - and it is still available for download from
O'Reilly.
Different indentation styles seem to be also present in perl-mode, but
only in the mode's documentation - there's no command to switch all
variables which customize indentation in one go. Since the set of
available options is different anyway, I guess I can get away with
adding the new option to cperl-mode only.
--
Cheers,
haj