Perlmonks already has some Perl documentation online, available under the various keywords of the documentation, mostly perlman: and perlfunc:. When mentioning module names like HTTP::Message, the engine dosen't find that node here and on the Not found-page, there is a hint like "Maybe you want the CPAN information for HTTP::Message. What I would like would be another prefix like for example CPAN: so I could reference documentation for a module available on CPAN directly from a node. The engine for that should be relatively simple if there is any provision of parsing node links for a prefix. Another addition along the same lines would be a link to the RFCsearch engine so that RFCs could be referenced using RFC:2068.

Of course, all of this can already currently be done by looking up the "right" link and using , so it's not really necessary but the lazy ones among us (that is, I :)) would benefit from that, as would the persons needing the links to RFCs and CPAN documentation.

In reply to Direct links to module documentation by Corion

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