From f3ff51288fa0370a9ea33312b188565e4f2b595e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Harald=20J=C3=B6rg?= <haj@posteo.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 10:01:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] cperl-mode: Highlight '{$a++ / $b}' correctly

* lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el (cperl-find-pods-heres):
Recognize {$a++ / $b} correctly as division.  (Bug#42168)
* test/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode-tests.el: New file with test
verifying the fix.
---
 lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el            |  3 ++
 test/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode-tests.el | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 test/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode-tests.el

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el
index 6122caf518..2d2713a36a 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el
@@ -3979,6 +3979,9 @@ cperl-find-pods-heres
 				    (and (eq (preceding-char) ?.)
 					 (eq (char-after (- (point) 2)) ?.))
 				    (bobp))
+				;; { $a++ / $b } doesn't start a regex, nor does $a--
+				(not (and (memq (preceding-char) '(?+ ?-))
+					  (eq (preceding-char) (char-before (1- (point))))))
 				;;  m|blah| ? foo : bar;
 				(not
 				 (and (eq c ?\?)
diff --git a/test/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode-tests.el b/test/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode-tests.el
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f39f1ba658
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode-tests.el
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+;;; cperl-mode-tests --- Test for cperl-mode  -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
+
+;; Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+;; Author: Harald Jörg <haj@posteo.de>
+;; Maintainer: Harald Jörg
+;; Keywords: internal
+;; Homepage: https://github.com/HaraldJoerg/cperl-mode
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; This is a collection of tests for the fontification of CPerl-mode.
+
+;; Run these tests interactively:
+;; (ert-run-tests-interactively '(tag :fontification))
+
+;;; Code:
+
+(defun cperl-test-face (text regexp)
+  "Returns the face of the first character matched by REGEXP in TEXT."
+  (interactive)
+  (with-temp-buffer
+      (insert text)
+      (cperl-mode)
+      (font-lock-ensure (point-min) (point-max))
+      (goto-char (point-min))
+      (re-search-forward regexp)
+      (get-text-property (match-beginning 0) 'face)))
+
+(ert-deftest cperl-mode-test-bug-42168 ()
+  "Verify that '/' is a division after ++ or --, not a regexp.
+Reported in https://github.com/jrockway/cperl-mode/issues/45.
+If seen as regular expression, then the slash is displayed using
+font-lock-constant-face.  If seen as a division, then it doesn't
+have a face property."
+  :tags '(:fontification)
+  ;; The next two Perl expressions have divisions.  Perl "punctuation"
+  ;; operators don't get a face.
+  (let ((code "{ $a++ / $b }"))
+    (should (equal (cperl-test-face code "/" ) nil)))
+  (let ((code "{ $a-- / $b }"))
+    (should (equal (cperl-test-face code "/" ) nil)))
+  ;; The next two Perl expressions have regular expressions.  The
+  ;; delimiter of a RE is fontified with font-lock-constant-face.
+  (let ((code "{ $a+ / $b } # /"))
+    (should (equal (cperl-test-face code "/" ) font-lock-constant-face)))
+  (let ((code "{ $a- / $b } # /"))
+    (should (equal (cperl-test-face code "/" ) font-lock-constant-face))))
+
+;;; cperl-mode-tests.el ends here
-- 
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