This works great: 
function perldoc() { command perldoc -n less "$@" |man -l -; }

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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 ...

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Older versions of groff support the -c flag, but Pod::Perldoc::ToMan would need to be updated to allow the user to specify it.

In reply to Re^2: perldoc Bold, Italic etc by Anonymous Monk
in thread perldoc Bold, Italic etc by miguelnixon

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