summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el')
-rw-r--r--lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el
index 14cbaf9c0f4..29f4cc372d3 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
;;; cperl-mode.el --- Perl code editing commands for Emacs
;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,
-;; 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
+;; 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson
@@ -352,7 +352,15 @@ Can be overwritten by `cperl-hairy' if nil."
(defcustom cperl-electric-keywords nil
"*Not-nil (and non-null) means keywords are electric in CPerl.
-Can be overwritten by `cperl-hairy' if nil."
+Can be overwritten by `cperl-hairy' if nil.
+
+Uses `abbrev-mode' to do the expansion. If you want to use your
+own abbrevs in cperl-mode, but do not want keywords to be
+electric, you must redefine `cperl-mode-abbrev-table': do
+\\[edit-abbrevs], search for `cperl-mode-abbrev-table', and, in
+that paragraph, delete the words that appear at the ends of lines and
+that begin with \"cperl-electric\".
+"
:type '(choice (const null) boolean)
:group 'cperl-affected-by-hairy)