Re: link to perl documentation

The monastery maintains a list of known functions and vars and is redirecting them

like [doc://open] open

Regarding "deep links", I remember this to be an annoying issue and perldoc.perl.org changing the format doesn't make it easier.

That's why I wrote Wikisyntax for the Monastery, so that I can simply add the URL and it will be auto transformed into valid PM markup.

Example:

pasting http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Loop-Control
transforms to [HTTP://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Loop-Control|perlsyn#Loop-Control]
shows perlsyn#Loop-Control

Furthermore, if you look at the HTML sources of the perldocs you'll discover far more anchors and IDs than listed in the TOC.

One could write a bookmarklet to make them visible as TOC and embedded anchor symbols to easily copy the URL then.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery
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Re^2: link to perl documentation by Anonymous Monk on Jun 18, 2019 at 17:41 UTC
The "known function" auto-handling is a bit unfortunate here, as "open" is already a documentation page: https://perldoc.pl/open (the post is failing if I linkify this) Because of the search "auto-redirect" going to one or the other, the "did you mean?" snippet at the top of the page was added for pages with the same name (notably also if, socket, fcntl).	[reply]
Re^3: link to perl documentation by jdporter (Paladin) on Jun 19, 2019 at 13:42 UTC
the post is failing if I linkify this Hmm. https://perldoc.pl/open Worked for me... ? I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.	[reply]
Re^3: link to perl documentation by LanX (Saint) on Jun 19, 2019 at 11:42 UTC
It is indeed unfortunate, but there is still the alternative to either link directly to a pragma https://perldoc.perl.org/open.html or to choose the cpan version via `[mod://]` open my personal preference would be to allow any URI being pasted directly and being auto-transformed into internal markup. I suppose you are one of the maintainers of perldoc.pl, please consider signing in into perlmonks or at least signing the posts to facilitate longer discussions. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply] [d/l]