If you visit the perlfaq5 page, you see a nice menu of the questions that perlfaq5 answers, such as "How do I do a tail -f in perl?". But if you actually click on one of these questions, disaster! The software does a search for all nodes that contain any of the words "How", "do", "I", "do", "tail", "-f", "in", and "perl".

That's a lot of output. The resulting page is 753K long. The items it lists occur repeatedly and are not even in a useful order. The link to the correct node does not appear until about 15% of the way down the page.

It seems as though the perlfaq nodes are some of the most important nodes on the site. Shouldn't they have useful links to the right places?

In reply to Perlfaq items have bad links by Dominus

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