[pm-h] turn off perl mode in emacs

[Russell L. Harris]

* Will Willis <will.willis at gmail.com> [080507 13:21]:
> Chances are, your .emacs file has cperl-mode associated with *.p[l|m]
> files on start. Look in that file, see what it's doing, e.g.:
> 
>    (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.pl\\'" . cperl-mode))
>    (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.pm\\'" . cperl-mode))
> 
> then just change cperl-mode to whatever mode you want.

I used "find" to search for .emacs* and for .xemacs* ; the only
configuration files which I found were in my home directory, and
neither contained references to perl.

I am running Debian GNU/Linux on an i386 machine.

RLH