Re^7: Better perldoc on Windows

Using w3m within an emacs bufferš allows me ...

No need to install w3m, WoMan is core in emacs.

cperl-mode also has an info-reader interface to perldocs!

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Re^8: Better perldoc on Windows by LanX (Saint) on Jun 07, 2010 at 16:00 UTC
> No need to install w3m, WoMan is core in emacs. sure that's what I meant with "I'm never running into these kinds of problems". > cperl-mode also has an info-reader interface to perldocs! Well theoretically... Unfortunately this relies on installing static info-files (for CORE modules only) which stopped being updated with Perl 5.6 (IIRC). While it should be fairly simple realizing a dynamic pod2info translation and displaying in emacs and I'm a big fan of Info when it comes to navigate large docs as a tree! But I don't really see the benefit over porting the info semantics and keybindings to (wo)man or html display, since well maintained perl packages are already splitted into different modules... So using a podserver has much more benefits... Cheers Rolf	[reply]

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Re^8: Better perldoc on Windows
by LanX (Saint) on Jun 07, 2010 at 16:00 UTC

> No need to install w3m, WoMan is core in emacs.

sure that's what I meant with "I'm never running into these kinds of problems".

> cperl-mode also has an info-reader interface to perldocs!

Well theoretically... Unfortunately this relies on installing static info-files (for CORE modules only) which stopped being updated with Perl 5.6 (IIRC).

While it should be fairly simple realizing a dynamic pod2info translation and displaying in emacs and I'm a big fan of Info when it comes to navigate large docs as a tree!

But I don't really see the benefit over porting the info semantics and keybindings to (wo)man or html display, since well maintained perl packages are already splitted into different modules... So using a podserver has much more benefits...

Cheers Rolf

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