Perl joins the Prelude family :-)

init.el

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 (require 'prelude-emacs-lisp)
 (require 'prelude-haskell)
 (require 'prelude-markdown)
+(require 'prelude-perl)
 (require 'prelude-ruby)
 
 ;;; init.el ends here

prelude-perl.el

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+;;; prelude-perl.el --- Emacs Prelude: decent Perl coding settings.
+;;
+;; Copyright (c) 2011 Bozhidar Batsov
+;;
+;; Author: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar.batsov@gmail.com>
+;; URL: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Prelude
+;; Version: 1.0.0
+;; Keywords: convenience
+
+;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; cperl-mode is the best Perl mode for Emacs out there.
+
+;;; License:
+
+;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+;; as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3
+;; of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+;;
+;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
+;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+;;; Code:
+
+;; use cperl-mode instead of perl-mode
+(defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode)
+
+(defun prelude-cperl-mode-hook ()
+  (setq cperl-indent-level 4)
+  (setq cperl-continued-statement-offset 8)
+  ;; cperl-hairy affects all those variables, but I prefer
+  ;; a more fine-grained approach as far as they are concerned
+  (setq cperl-font-lock t)
+  (setq cperl-electric-lbrace-space t)
+  (setq cperl-electric-parens nil)
+  (setq cperl-electric-linefeed nil)
+  (setq cperl-electric-keywords nil)
+  (setq cperl-info-on-command-no-prompt t)
+  (setq cperl-clobber-lisp-bindings t)
+  (setq cperl-lazy-help-time 3)
+
+  ;; if you want all the bells and whistles
+  ;; (setq cperl-hairy)
+
+  (set-face-background 'cperl-array-face nil)
+  (set-face-background 'cperl-hash-face nil)
+  (setq cperl-invalid-face nil))
+
+(add-hook 'cperl-mode-hook 'prelude-cperl-mode-hook t)
+
+(provide 'prelude-perl)
+
+;;; prelude-perl.el ends here