bug#30549: 25.2; perl-mode: font lock improvement

[Evgeni Kolev]

I'm reporting an issue with perl-mode's font lock for perl keywords, and suggesting a fix.

To reproduce:

- emacs -Q

- clear the scratch buffer

- M-x perl-mode

- enter the following text:

    use Fake;

    my $use = 123;

    my $var = 123;

- observe the issue: `$use` is incorrectly highlighted - it should be highlighted with the same color as `$var`, but it's highlighted with the same color as `use` (on the first line).

The fix I suggest is borrowed from cperl-mode - extend the font lock regex to *not* match keywords if they start with a perl sigil.

The diff is below, please let me know if it can be improved. I've signed the copyright assignment.

From 8d1977cfc6c4884b231270c33c3bdabbd16b14aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Evgeni Kolev <evgenysw@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:14:29 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el: keyword regex must not match

 sigils

---

 lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el | 2 +-

 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el

index 9948078..c1d94ac 100644

--- a/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el

+++ b/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ perl-font-lock-keywords-1

     ;; Fontify function and package names in declarations.

     ("\\<\\(package\\|sub\\)\\>[ \t]*\\(\\sw+\\)?"

      (1 font-lock-keyword-face) (2 font-lock-function-name-face nil t))

-    ("\\<\\(import\\|no\\|require\\|use\\)\\>[ \t]*\\(\\sw+\\)?"

+    ("\\(^\\|[^$@%&\\]\\)\\<\\(import\\|no\\|require\\|use\\)\\>[ \t]*\\(\\sw+\\)?"

      (1 font-lock-keyword-face) (2 font-lock-constant-face nil t)))

   "Subdued level highlighting for Perl mode.")

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