perldoc terminal syntax color highlighting

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Re: perldoc terminal syntax color highlighting by Anonymous Monk on Aug 03, 2014 at 21:07 UTC
Not sure about the console, but have a look at Pod::Webserver, Perldoc::Server, Pod::POM::Web, and Pod::Browser. I used Pod::POM::Web a few times and liked it. If I want to quickly look at the source of a module sometimes I'll just do view `perldoc -l MODULE` (that's assuming you have vim set up that way, and you like `vi` ;-) ).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: perldoc terminal syntax color highlighting by Anonymous Monk on Aug 03, 2014 at 23:07 UTC
`[cpan://pod term], [metacpan://pod term]` pod term, pod term -> Pod::Perldoc::ToTerm - render Pod with terminal escapes ... alt, indent, loose, quotes, sentence, width So there you go, you have a start :) SMOP-it extension for code paragraphs (verbatim) with Text::VimColor and you're done You could also hack PPI::HTML to ansi up the text with Term::ANSIColor::Markup proof of concept should take all of 5 minutes ;P	[reply] [d/l]
Re: perldoc terminal syntax color highlighting by zentara (Cardinal) on Aug 03, 2014 at 22:24 UTC
If you could only use X :-) .... Tk::Pod or Gtk2::Ex::PodViewer I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]
Re: perldoc terminal syntax color highlighting by LanX (Saint) on Aug 03, 2014 at 22:03 UTC
> Is it possible? Yes! But I haven't seen it implemented yet. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)} update Actually I'm not sure if there are native pagers which support coloring (like with Term::ANSIColor ), but you asked about terminals. Otherwise see How (Not) To Ask A Question.	[reply]
Re: perldoc terminal syntax color highlighting ( perldocolor ) by Anonymous Monk on Aug 04, 2014 at 07:30 UTC
And the concept is proven Read more... (5 kB) All thats left to do, is settle on a name (maybe call it perldocolor), maybe package it up as a module or a exe, improve color mapping naturally (allow for background and foreground... just finish it up, fill in the blanks, provide for stylesheet-alike specification, default stylesheets , work out the quirks with colorize)... You're welcome	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: perldoc terminal syntax color highlighting ( perldocolor ) by LanX (Saint) on Aug 04, 2014 at 16:24 UTC
Too lazy for a proof of concept, but FWIW... ... I'd rather use `perldoc -ohtml` in combination with `perltidy -html` for the parts within `<pre>` tags and w3m or lynx as a "pager". NB: Not every intended block in POD is necessarily Perl code, so some "looks like Perl" heuristic might be useful. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)}	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: perldoc terminal syntax color highlighting ( perldocolor ) by Anonymous Monk on Aug 13, 2014 at 07:12 UTC
improvement :) Read more... (7 kB)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: perldoc terminal syntax color highlighting by jimav (Sexton) on Mar 11, 2023 at 00:55 UTC
Yes it is possible now. Using bash: `export PERLDOC="-M Pod::Text::Color"` or `export PERLDOC="-M Pod::Text::Color::Delight"` and now "perldoc" colorizes. Whichever module you use must be installed with, e.g. cpanm	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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