Re: [emacs] perldoc on windows

Hello LanX,

dunno if useful but UnxUtils has a working man not a nroff although.

To see documentation I use Jenda's macro pdoc=perldoc -o html -T -w index $* > %TEMP%\perldoc_temp.html && start %TEMP%\perldoc_temp.html Maybe you can spawn an html page and stop.

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Re^2: [emacs] perldoc on windows by LanX (Saint) on Mar 23, 2018 at 16:31 UTC
Thanks, but spawning a browser to show an html-page is already easy, I use it to inspect the POD of the files I'm editing. Having the perldoc directly in another Emacs pane without switching the application has many advantages: you can edit the file directly, for instance search and cut and paste code examples from a module I can build keyboard-macros which use this text you get an index inside imenu to navigate it this imenu index is shown in a left pane for navigation when ECB or similar is activated auto-expansion like `dabbrev-expand` is parsing the man buffer for possible expansions revisiting the man-page is faster if the man-buffer already exists inside emacs the internal window-management sparse me from adjusting the browser and editor window ... (certainly forgot to mention other stuff) Additionally does cperl-mode come with more DWIM logic, like `cperl-perldoc-at-point` which reads the word under the cursor and automatically calls `perldoc -f <word>` instead of `perldoc <word>` if it's a function. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: [emacs] perldoc on windows
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 23, 2018 at 16:31 UTC

Having the perldoc directly in another Emacs pane without switching the application has many advantages:

you can edit the file directly, for instance search and cut and paste code examples from a module
I can build keyboard-macros which use this text
you get an index inside imenu to navigate it
this imenu index is shown in a left pane for navigation when ECB or similar is activated
auto-expansion like dabbrev-expand is parsing the man buffer for possible expansions
revisiting the man-page is faster if the man-buffer already exists inside emacs
the internal window-management sparse me from adjusting the browser and editor window
... (certainly forgot to mention other stuff)

Additionally does cperl-mode come with more DWIM logic, like cperl-perldoc-at-point which reads the word under the cursor and automatically calls perldoc -f <word> instead of perldoc <word> if it's a function.

Cheers Rolf
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