Re^2: Specific Indentation request for perl in Emacs

[Yoyoson]

pdcawley,

I truly appreciate your reply, this is the closest I've been to solving this issue so far. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble getting it to work.
By default, my emacs uses perl-mode when I open a perl file or module. So I know how to switch into cperl-mode after I've started the buffer (M-x cperl-mode) and I know how to put the (setq ... ) line in my .emacs, except I'm wondering if I also need to start up cperl-mode automatically from within my .emacs to get this to work.

As for your advice against using this, I can definitely see the logic in your argument, the only thing is that this particular indentation nuance is a part of my workplace's official coding standard.

I guess my question then, is, how can I get cperl-mode to start up automatically in my .emacs, or how can I set that toggle-setting after I've started the buffer?

Thanks!!

[Yoyoson]

Okay, I managed to get cperl-mode starting up automatically on my own - but the dang thing still doesn't work. I also found the variable cperl-indent-parens-as-block inside of my cperl-mode.el (it's version 4.32) so I don't think that's the issue here. I'm not sure what it could be.

[metaperl]

pdcawley's solution worked for me under xemacs... you do know that GNU emacs has both cperl-mode and perl-mode?

What is the value of auto-mode-alist? You may be going into perl-mode instead of cperl-mode. Here's sample line that puts me in cperl-mode when opening a test file:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.t$" . cperl-mode)) 
 
(setq cperl-indent-parens-as-block t)