in reply to Option for MetaCPAN in cpan links

I wouldn't be too eager to redirect the [mod://...] and [cpan://...] shortcuts. Authors chose their links as they intended (or so I hope). But if you look at What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information? you will find [metamod://...] and [metacpan://...] which behave just like the 'mod' and 'cpan' shortcuts, except that they point to http://metacpan.org instead of http://search.cpan.org.


Dave

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Re^2: Option for MetaCPAN in cpan links
by Ralesk (Pilgrim) on Jun 29, 2013 at 02:19 UTC

    Oh, indeed — I hadn’t bumped into those codes. But even so, there’s already an option in Display Settings where one can (sort of) change the behaviour of the [cpan://...] command, only for one’s own viewing pleasure. So I wonder if it’s possible to make them all behave like [meta{mod,cpan}://...] commands, or feasible at all. Besides hacking around with LanX’s script that is :)

    Might be just me, but I really dislike the old CPAN now that there’s a nicer one — and I bet there are some oldskool people out there who would get uneasy about people linking to MetaCPAN. So that’s why I’m thinking it might serve a good purpose as a display setting.

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      > Besides hacking around with LanX’s script that is :)

      Well... my hack is already productive! =)

      I'm afraid that not many alternatives for such personal wishes will be offered.

      Cheers Rolf

      ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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      I'll test till Monday and publish then...

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