How to check if cperl-mode.el file is loaded

[eric_powell]

Hello, 

I am trying to use the newest version of cperl-mode and, although I am not
getting errors, I still don’t think it’s loaded correctly.  I downloaded the
cperl-mode.el file from http://github.com/jrockway/cperl-mode and placed it
in my elisp directory.  

What gets me is that when I check the version (C-h v cperl-version) it says
4.23, which is the same version number that my emacs originally came with.  

Is there anything in particular that I should notice different between v4.23
and the current version at the website above?

On a side note, in my .emacs file, I notice that if I put the require
statement after the ‘add-to-list’ command that I get an error: ‘error:
"Invalid escape character syntax"’.  That doesn’t seem right to me, but when
I switched the order of the two it went away, so I left it like that.

Here is my .emacs file: 

####################################################################################
;; .emacs
(require 'cperl-mode)
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp")

;; ---- CPERL MODE ----- ;;
;;; cperl-mode is preferred to perl-mode
;;; "Brevity is the soul of wit" <foo at acm.org>
(defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode)

;;; uncomment this line to disable loading of "default.el" at startup
;; (setq inhibit-default-init t)

;; turn on font-lock mode
(when (fboundp 'global-font-lock-mode)
  (global-font-lock-mode t))

;; enable visual feedback on selections
;(setq transient-mark-mode t)

;; default to better frame titles
(setq frame-title-format
      (concat  "%b - emacs@" (system-name)))

;; default to unified diffs
(setq diff-switches "-u")

;; always end a file with a newline
;(setq require-final-newline 'query)

(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 '(comment-column 80)
 '(truncate-partial-width-windows t))
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 )

####################################################################################

Thank you for your help :)
-eric

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