in reply to perldoc terminal syntax color highlighting

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 ;-) ).