Re: Parens in column 1 equals defun fiasco

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: > The syntax tables are a no-brainer IMO. Barry Warsaw personally > asked me to do something about the parens in column 1 equals defun > fiasco, and we know what Matt's stuff means to cperl-mode. Does it mean that Matt's code fixes the parens-in-first-column problem? Is there anyone who even knows how we came by that problem and why FSF Emacs apparently doesn't suffer from it? I understand that it is an important optimization, but I don't understand why the FSF doesn't need it!