I'm finding the ability to give cpan: and perldoc: links to be less than completely helpful. For instance, if I want to include a link to the List::Utils module, List::Utils goes to search results instead of directly to the module. I think making go directly to the module doc (with author, distribution, and .pm source links right at the top) like http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/List::Utils would be better.

For going to doc search results, perldoc: works, but if I want to go to a specific up to date perl man page, it's a little lacking, e.g. perldoc://perlcheat (not found) vs. http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/perlcheat.

I'm not completely happy with any choice to jump to a particular perl function. Compare substr vs. perldoc://substr vs. http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/perlfunc#substr (my problem with the last option is that it loads the whole perlfunc page).

I do have to say that looking through multiple old versions on perldoc.com is handy sometimes, but if you want to link to a specific version of doc, you can say e.g.http://search.cpan.org/~gsar/perl-5.6.0/pod/perldelta.pod

Maybe I'm just confusedly trying to use what are intended to be "go to search results" links as "show me the money" links. I personally would expect the latter to be more commonly wanted than the former, especially for module names.

Anyway, that's my question and I don't have a suggested answer for how it is best addressed.

In reply to cpan: module and perldoc: links by ysth

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