haj

Since almost forever, Emacs supports editing Perl sources with CPerl mode. As of now, CPerl mode is not only shipped with Emacs, but also available on GNU ELPA. ELPA stands for Emacs Lisp Package Archive, it is for Emacs what CPAN is for Perl. This means that to use the newest CPerl mode, you do not have to wait for the next Emacs version: If you use M-x list-packages, you should see cperl-mode in the list and can install it if you have Emacs 27 or newer.

The current version of CPerl mode supports Perl syntax up to Perl 5.44.

For bug reports and change requests, you can use M-x report-emacs-bug from within Emacs (be sure to add "cperl-mode" to the subject), or create an issue on my GitHub mirror. Development will not happen on GitHub, though, this happens in the GNU Emacs repository at savannah.

Happy hacking!

-- haj, your friendly CPerl mode maintainer