in reply to Re: perldoc Bold, Italic etc
in thread perldoc Bold, Italic etc

Many thanks to all for your replies.
The only solution is: perldoc -oman func.pl
It's easy enough to create an alias for this.
Sounds almost as if perldoc 5.30 now defaults to plain text instead of pod formatting.
Glad I now can see my documentation as intended ;-)
Here's the plain text I was playing with:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "a perl script\n";

__END__

=head1 B<Bold heading>

=over 4

=item * I<Italic item>

Description of the first argument.

=item * I<also Italic>

Description of the second argument.

=back

=cut

Thanks again everyone. Cheers!

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^3: perldoc Bold, Italic etc
by LanX (Saint) on Aug 31, 2021 at 11:39 UTC
[reply]
[d/l]
      Thanks for the feedback, Rolf
      Herewith same command on both machines
      Mint 20 perl 5.30:
      mike@MiguelDeskXFCE20B:~$ perldoc -D CGI
Ending switch processing.  Args are [CGI] with 0 errors.
Pagers: /usr/bin/sensible-pager, more, less, pg, view, cat/usr/bin/per
+ldoc => Pod::Perldoc v3.2801

Formatter class Pod::Perldoc::ToText version 3.28 successfully loaded!
Will format with the class Pod::Perldoc::ToText

      [download]

      and on my Mint 19 laptop with perl 5.22:
      mike@MiguelDell ~ $ perldoc -D CGI
Ending switch processing.  Args are [CGI] with 0 errors.
Pagers: /usr/bin/sensible-pagermorelesspgviewcat/usr/bin/perldoc => Po
+d::Perldoc v3.25

Formatter class Pod::Perldoc::ToTerm version 3.25 successfully loaded!
Will format with the class Pod::Perldoc::ToTerm

      [download]
[reply]
[d/l]
[select]
        Thanks! :)

        It should load Pod::Perldoc::ToTerm, could you please check if an explicit -oterm loads it?

        If it's available, I can't tell from this output why it's not chosen. (apart from the missing commas)

        probably comparing the ENV variables sheds some light.

        I'd also play with setting PERLDOCDEBUG

        > Having PERLDOCDEBUG set to a positive integer will make perldoc emit even more descriptive output than the -D switch does; the higher the number, the more it emits.

        If this doesn't give a clue I'm afraid I'm out of ideas.

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery

[reply]
[d/l]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom