An useful variation would be a bookmark with keyword "perldoc":

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?%s
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When you type "perldoc Module::Name", it will take you directly to the docs.

However, you must provide an exact name. No search on partial matches is provided.

Update Removed a spurious "=" sign from the URL. Thanks ewijava.

Have you tested it? Accessing perldoc of a module in CPAN is done via authors directory. Hence your solution will fail.

Alternatively this is the snippet to access perldoc.com website. Applicable for both Opera and Firefox.

http://www.perldoc.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?words=%s&restrict=perl5.8.4
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Regards,
Edward

Have you tested it?
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CGI
redirects to http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.07/CGI.pm

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Acme::MJD
redirects to http://search.cpan.org/~podmaster/Acme-MJD-0.02/lib/Acme/MJD.pm

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"

I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).

** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

Here's a couple useful ones for Firefox

keyword:  pdoc
location: http://perldoc.perl.org/%s.html
example:  pdoc perltoot

keyword:  pfunc
location: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/%s.html
example:  pfunc chomp
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I've added a "cpan" bookmark with the following location:

http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=all&query=%s
If I try to search for something with colons (like Text::CSV), I get an alert popup with the following text:

"The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded."

I either have to use "keyword:cpan" instead of "cpan" or replace colons with "%3a" in the module name.

Just browse on over to your site of choice, right click in the search text field and select 'Add a Keyword for this search'. This will do the same with less typing.
satchm0h...stumbling down the path toward enlightenment

Try to use the snippet I provide *verbatim*, do not alter it. Even under Linux, you can get the result:

http://search.cpan.org/search?m=all&q=Text%3A%3ACSV&s=1&n=20
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Just with command: cpan Text::CSV
Notice the common pattern between the two URLs.
Regards,
Edward

I think this is a nice tip, even if it is not Perl code ;-). ewijaya wrote:

Store this snippet under file: ~/.opera/search.ini

Of course a user of MSWindows (who might well be using Opera) will not have any " ~ " dir. On my MS Windows XP system I empirically determined that this expression gives the location of the file which one wants to insert the Opera "snippet" into:

perl -MFile::Spec::Functions -le "print catfile( \$ENV{USERPROFILE}=> 
+q[APPLIC~1]=> q[Opera/Opera7/profile/search.ini] )"
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That script doesn't work for me, however I am using Opera 9.x, not Opera 7. If I remember correctly, the search.ini file can be located in the C:\program files\Opera\