bug#19709: Problem with indentation for the closing parenthesis in cperl-mode version 6.1

[Stefan Kangas]

Håkon Hægland <hakon.hagland@gmail.com> writes:

> I have problems with correct alignment of the closing parenthesis in 
> cperl-mode. For example consider the following Perl code:
>
> my $a = func1(
>     Module::test()
>   );
>
> my $b = func2(
>     test()
> );
>
> my $c = func3(
>     Module::test(),
> );
> We see that the closing parenthesis is not correctly indented for func1, but 
> for func2 and func3 it is correct.
>
> In cperl-mode-hook I have
>
> (setq cperl-indent-level 4)
> (setq cperl-indent-parens-as-block t)
> (setq cperl-close-paren-offset -4)
>
> It seems to me that this behavior is related to the newest version of 
> cperl-mode. I am using Emacs 24.4 on Ubuntu 14.04, and the cperl-mode that 
> came with the installation 
> (/opt/emacs24.4/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el.gz) is version 
> 6.1
> of cperl-mode.
>
> I then tried to install cperl-mode from ELPA using Emacs 24.4 package manager 
> (list-packages), and it turned out that it gave me version 5.23 of cperl-mode 
> which also indented the closing parenthesis correctly..

I can reproduce this on Emacs 26.2.

BTW, the problem goes away when I set:

  (setq cperl-label-offset 0)

But of course you shouldn't have to do that.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas