(cperl-init-faces): Use font-lock-negation-char-face.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el
index 4a701edcca2..35957457a9a 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el
@@ -4751,7 +4751,10 @@ indentation and initial hashes.  Behaves usually outside of comment."
                   (t '("^[ \t{}]*\\(my\\|local\\our\\)[ \t]*\\(([ \t]*\\)?\\([$@%*][a-zA-Z0-9_:]+\\)"
                        3 font-lock-variable-name-face)))
             '("\\<for\\(each\\)?\\([ \t]+\\(my\\|local\\|our\\)\\)?[ \t]*\\(\\$[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z_0-9]*\\)[ \t]*("
-              4 font-lock-variable-name-face)))
+              4 font-lock-variable-name-face)
+            ;; Avoid s!!, qq!! etc. when not fontifying syntaxically
+            '("\\(?:^\\|[^smywqrx]\\)\\(!\\)" 1 font-lock-negation-char-face)
+            '("\\[\\(\\^\\)" 1 font-lock-negation-char-face prepend)))
           (setq
            t-font-lock-keywords-1
            (and (fboundp 'turn-on-font-lock) ; Check for newer font-lock