cperl-mode - (X)Emacs major mode for editing Perl(6) files

I started modifying cperl-mode (an Emacs mode for editing Perl files) to recognize Perl6 syntax. Initially I forked it as cperl6-mode to make it not interfere with existing cperl-mode based on v4.35. It was later reintegrated into cperl-mode.el based on its version 5.xx and is now hosted on github together with other cperl-mode branches.

I contributed my modified cperl-mode.el to the Pugs project:

• Audrey's Journal
• cperl-mode.el in Pugs
• cperl-mode.el on github

Usage

You probably don't want to overwrite your system's cperl-mode.el. So put the file cperl-mode.el somewhere into your personal load path that is searched before default load path, e.g. via:

(setq load-path
      (append
       (list
         (expand-file-name "~/local/lisp"))
       load-path))

Parsing Perl6 syntax can be activated via one of the following ways:

• filename suffix is .p6
• There is the following perl pragma near the beginning of the file (first 320 chars):

use v6;

• You write this line at the beginning of your file:

### -*- cperl-use-v6: t; -*-

• You write this somewhere in your file:

### Local Variables:
### cperl-use-v6: t
### End:

To use the Pugs coding guidelines, use this in your emacs config file:

(add-hook 'cperl-mode-hook
          '(lambda ()
             (cperl-set-style "Pugs")))

Please, please, please, give me feedback whether you use my modified cperl-mode and/or send me syntax snippets that do not yet correctly highlight/indent, with a description how it should behave.