I can confirm that is buggy in 5.24 strawberry..

io@COMP:c>perldoc -V
Perldoc v3.27, under perl v5.024001 for MSWin32

io@COMP:c>perldoc -f seek
Parametro non valido - -R
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It runs ok in 5.28

io@COMP:C>perldoc -V
Perldoc v3.2801, under perl v5.028001 for MSWin32

io@COMP:C>perldoc -f seek
    seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE
[...]
-- More  --
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Strange I never noticed: I use it.. but probably I never noticed because I use the ancient Jenda's macro everytime since 2010 ;) dunno if you was refering to this one..

pdoc=perldoc -o html -T -w index $* > %TEMP%\perldoc_temp.html && start %TEMP%\perldoc_temp.html

Windows macros are ridicule things and do you need to reload the file (if you have them in file) everytime to have them applied. You can modify the link to your cmd.exe to use doskey with the above macro specified or a file to read.

L*

Thanks, it's activestate in my case and I came up with an alias too

doskey perldoc=perldoc -T $* ^| more

But I'm still not a fan of more , missing all the options less offers.

Now trying to create an texinfo output and render the output in emacs as pager

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}

> Now trying to create an texinfo output and render the output in emacs as pager

emacs has a built-in man renderer called "woman".

The following elisp function renders the pod as man and displays it (with meta informations) inside emacs. Tested on windows.

This is far from perfect and meant as a start (release often ... yadda).

The PDE project seems to have more elaborated code, not sure how it blends into cperl-modes code.

 
(defun perldoc-woman (target)
     "perldoc displayed via woman"
   (interactive)
   (let* (
         (buffer-name (concat "*perldoc-" target "*"))
         (perl-cmd
               (concat "perl C:/Perl_524/bin/perldoc -MPod::Man " targ
+et))
         )

     (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create buffer-name))
     (erase-buffer)
     (shell-command perl-cmd 1)
     (woman-process-buffer)

     (list buffer-name perl-cmd) ;dbg
     )
   )
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Please note that you can use emacsclient --eval to send elisp code to emacs and display inside the terminal (option '-nw') if needed.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}

I have Git for Windows and "less" from GNUWin32 installed so use "less" as my pager. The GNUWin32 version handles Windows better than the Git for Windows "less" version. In any case, PerlDoc doesn't work well with it, so my fix:

# Perldoc paging using less:
create:
c:\strawberry\perl\bin\perldoc
  (without extension)

Then, in Pod::Perldoc
  search for "-R" and comment out or put an if {} around, e.g.,

if ( $^O ne 'MSWin32' ) { 
    BLOCK
}
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My problem stemmed from a command line option to "less" that my "less.exe" didn't support, so it was just printing the whole POD at once with an error as well. Now, 'perldoc ARG' produces the PerlDoc for "ARG" (whatever it may be) using the "less" pager.

Hope that helps.

You nailed it, thanks! =)

This -R option is responsible for the problems on windows since the pager "more" can't handle "-R".

commenting out this line (#1941 for me)

#local $ENV{MORE} = defined $ENV{MORE} ? "$ENV{MORE} -R" : "-R";

fixed the win-bug for me.

Apparently this was added to fix unicode problems on linux, ignoring that Win has it's own "more" pager.

For those who wonder how to find Pod::Perldoc in their local installation

 >perldoc -l Pod::Perldoc
C:\Perl_524\lib\Pod\Perldoc.pm
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does the trick, even with corrupt pager options.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}