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From: "Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
To: Ben Combee <combee@sso-austin.sps.mot.com>
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Subject: Re: Odd VM/perl-mode interaction in 19.15b3
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>>>>> "BC" == Ben Combee <combee@sso-austin.sps.mot.com> writes:

    BC> I observed this buggy behavior in both 19.15b2 and 19.15b3.
    BC> The problem is that interpreter-mode-alist has "perl" listed
    BC> as a match for perl-mode in lisp/prim/files.el.  I had VM
    BC> setup to look for new mail from the Perl 5 Porters mailing
    BC> list, and since that incoming mail folder started with a line
    BC> of the form

    BC> From perl-porters@whatever.com 8 Dec 1996

I've already sent a patch in to Steve for interpreter-mode-alist, such
that it first verifies that the line begins with #! before doing the
regex matching.

-Barry

