Jan Vroonhof writes:
First of all this fixes cperl-mode not to set auto-mode-alist (this
very incovenient for people who have overridden .pl files to be some
other mode), c.f. message on c.e.x from prolog-mode author.
Newer cperl-mode does not (starting from version 4.1 or some such).
Secondly
it makes the default regexp more general.
Third, while I was at it it I made cperl-mode use more standard
bindings (i.e. not C-h f and C-h v) for its help commands[1]. Moreover
I have made the difference C-c C-h f and C-h f to a prefix command for
consistency with the rest of Emacs. This latter piece is probably
controversial for people whos fingers have the old keybindings rotten
in but I think these bindings are a lot cleaner. There may be more
than way to do it, but the defaults should be clean.
Please check whether what newer versions (starting from 2.?, I think)
do suits you.
Ilya