Syntax highlighting in Perl

Daniel Barlow dan at coruskate.net
Mon Oct 16 10:46:20 BST 2006


Peter Corlett wrote:
> Anybody who's wondered why they got a debugger in Emacs when they tried to
> save a file, and then realised they typed :wq, or have had their terminal
> lock up in vi because they did ^X^S will know what I mean.

(setq wq "You're not using vi!")	; sigh.  Whose idea was it to have
					; ESC : as eval-expression, then?

Part of my .emacs file since version 19 or so (whenever that command
moved from ESC ESC)


-dan


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