Re: perldoc Bold, Italic etc

Looks like all the pod formatters (man, color, ansi) ignore the user-specified pager colors. I have $LESS_TERMCAP_mb, etc defined and they work great on regular manpages, but perldoc ignores them. I also tried adding the color commandline switches in $LESS and still no luck. Seems like a bug to me. But not sure if it's in the Pod-Perldoc or podlators.

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Re^2: perldoc Bold, Italic etc by Anonymous Monk on May 08, 2025 at 15:16 UTC
This works great: `function perldoc() { command perldoc -n less "$@" \|man -l -; }` [download] Except it's not portable because the version of `man` included with the BSDs (including macOS) doesn't support reading manpages from `stdin`. Switching from a pipeline to temp files should be portable. With a recent `groff` version (>=1.23), this also works: `GROFF_NO_SGR=1 perldoc -oman ...` [download] Older versions of `groff` support the `-c` flag, but Pod::Perldoc::ToMan would need to be updated to allow the user to specify it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: perldoc Bold, Italic etc
by Anonymous Monk on May 08, 2025 at 15:16 UTC

function perldoc() { command perldoc -n less "$@" |man -l -; }
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With a recent groff version (>=1.23), this also works:

GROFF_NO_SGR=1 perldoc -oman ...
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groff

-c

Pod::Perldoc::ToMan

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