Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there any kind of POD text editor or graphical builder or WYSIWYG builder or something? if so, does anyone have a link to it?

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Re: Pod editor/builder, etc?
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 01, 2001 at 13:10 UTC
    no such thing exists, and why should it, its pod for gods sake?!? (its too simple and its features too few for it to require such a thing, but i'm sure some xp whore will write on in tk, or even better, Wx ;)
      >> but i'm sure some xp whore will write on <<

      /me writes a pod editor just to get everyone mad

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Re: Pod editor/builder, etc?
by C-Keen (Monk) on Oct 01, 2001 at 16:07 UTC
    You may want to have a look at pod2html which will convert existing POD into html (as the name suggests) which may be a more convenient way for you to deal with it.

    So long,
    C-Keen

Re: Pod editor/builder, etc?
by Maclir (Curate) on Oct 01, 2001 at 17:28 UTC
    Yes. On Unix and similar systems, use vi or emacs, on Windows, use Notepad.

    Sorry to be flippant, but really - what earthly reason could there be for using anything other than a straight text editor for editing text? What possible increase in productivity could some bloated point and drool product give you for a task as simple as writing text documentation?

Re: Pod editor/builder, etc?
by hsmyers (Canon) on Oct 02, 2001 at 00:46 UTC
    Without getting into a flame war over which editor, the process usually is edit, compile, view, repeat until done. As mentioned, you can convert to html or even LaTeX or pdf if you want—regardless the cycle will still be the same. There are some editors that could mechanize the loop if you disdain the commandline, but that's about it.

    hsm

Re: Pod editor/builder, etc?
by Tommy (Chaplain) on May 16, 2005 at 02:05 UTC

    I can't imagine how a POD editor would be a bad thing. Despite the fact that I vi everything, a quicker way to create pod could hardly be viewed as bad -at least by this lowly monk.

    Would that there were such a tool. Don't want to write my own.

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    Tommy Butler, a.k.a. Tommy