Re: Opera + Firefox browser Shortcut for searching CPAN

An useful variation would be a bookmark with keyword "perldoc":

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?%s
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When you type "perldoc Module::Name", it will take you directly to the docs.

However, you must provide an exact name. No search on partial matches is provided.

Update Removed a spurious "=" sign from the URL. Thanks ewijava.

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Re^2: Opera + Firefox browser Shortcut for searching CPAN
by monkfan (Curate) on Apr 13, 2005 at 09:04 UTC

http://www.perldoc.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?words=%s&restrict=perl5.8.4
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Edward

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Re^3: Opera + Firefox browser Shortcut for searching CPAN

by PodMaster (Abbot) on Apr 13, 2005 at 09:27 UTC

you

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CGI

http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.07/CGI.pm

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Acme::MJD
redirects to http://search.cpan.org/~podmaster/Acme-MJD-0.02/lib/Acme/MJD.pm

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Re^4: Opera + Firefox browser Shortcut for searching CPAN

by monkfan (Curate) on Apr 13, 2005 at 09:51 UTC

Have you tested it?

dbwiz

URL=http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?%s
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PodMaster

Regards,
Edward

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Re^4: Opera + Firefox browser Shortcut for searching CPAN

by tlm (Prior) on Apr 13, 2005 at 14:54 UTC

Contrary to the search form at http://search.cpan.org, the redirection above appears to be case sensitive. E.g.

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?cgi
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