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...