perltidy, emacs, and PBP

[Anonymous Monk]

Recently I decided to abandon my long-held personal formatting standards and just follow perltidy/PBP. And also, due to curiosity about the recent 22 release of Emacs, promised myself to try to use Emacs more :-)

{Tips, Emacs rc file, Whatever} to make cperl-mode behave more closely to PBP would be appreciated. Being a clueless newbie Emacs user, I don't even know how to set the continuation indentation (exact term?), you know, the "z" in code below:

$mech->submit_form(
zzzzform_number => 1,
zzzzfields      => {
zzzzzzzzusername => ...
zzzzzzzzpassword => ...
zzzz},
);

By default, cperl-mode behaves like this:

$mech->submit_form(
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzform_number => 1,
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzfields      => {
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzusername => ...
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzpassword => ...
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz},
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz);

Edit: g0n - replaced pre tags with code tags

[strat]

maybe my .emacs helps you; it runs (with adopted paths) unter windows, linux and solaris:

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[swampyankee]

A lot of these can be set by M-x custom.

Some ambitious emacs lisper (hint, hint) should consider integrating PBP's formatting suggestions into cperl-mode. I've only read snippets of PBP, and find perltidy's defaults less than pleasant, but standards–even ones with which I don't entirely agree–are usually a good thing.

[kyle]

I think the responses to Perl Best Practices PerlTidy might be close to what you're looking for.

[educated_foo]

I get what seems to be your desired behavior from these:

  (cperl-set-style "BSD")
  (setq cperl-indent-parens-as-block t
        cperl-close-paren-offset -4)