update

and perldoc is using Win's |more as pager, which is quite ... "rudimentary".

Refer to ENVIRONMENT on how to use other pagers.
Bill

so, which pager do you recommend on win?

Cheers Rolf
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Regarding the update: To get around the Win 'more', you can invoke 'M-x shell-command perldoc ...' to get the results in an emacs buffer. No console required, but either copypasting names or wrapping shell-command into an emacs macro are needed.

yeah , thanks,I know. :)

I stole some code from Emacs::PDE which does it with pod2man and woman.el , this solves most issues.

I also try to avoid the console and use eshell inside emacs instead, perldoc works there flawlessly.

A third option might be to load the raw POD code and to switch to pod-mode. (didn't try this yet)

I didn't start this thread because I don't have workarounds, but because I think that there should be a drop in replacement such that the logic and bindings in cperl-mode continue to work seamlessly.

Cheers Rolf
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