I'm thinking this is valid for 8.10 still; I don't see any meaningful documentation outside of cperl-tips (the pertinent instruction is now on line 728 if I understand the original report correctly).
cperl-tips is useful but I concur that the basic invocation instructions should be mentioned in the Commentary section and probably in the docstring for cperl-mode itself.
I'm thinking this is valid for 8.10 still; I don't see any meaningful documentation outside of cperl-tips (the pertinent instruction is now on line 728 if I understand the original report correctly).
cperl-tips is useful but I concur that the basic invocation instructions should be mentioned in the Commentary section and probably in the docstring for cperl-mode itself.