Re: RFC: How to survive your first few months of Perl

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Re^2: RFC: How to survive your first few months of Perl by graff (Chancellor) on Nov 12, 2008 at 02:48 UTC
perldoc -f In my first few months of using Perl (back in 1995), I cannot tell you how much time I would have saved if I had known about this option on perldoc. Initially, I was learning by adapting code that someone else had written, so in the course of a day, I ran "perldoc perlfunc" repeatedly to look up the details on function calls, and I was constantly paging down to the function of interest... UPDATE: On second thought, I have to admit that I learned a lot more about perl (and grew to appreciate it more quickly) by virtue of spending so much time with the "perlfunc" man page.	[reply]
Re^2: RFC: How to survive your first few months of Perl by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Nov 11, 2008 at 16:44 UTC
`perldoc -l Some::Module \| xargs less` How about `perldoc -m Some::Module` instead? --MidLifeXis	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: RFC: How to survive your first few months of Perl by quester (Vicar) on Nov 15, 2008 at 19:05 UTC
If you define PERLDOC_PAGER=less or PAGER=less in your environment, say in .bashrc or the equivalent, it works fine. Otherwise perldoc will use more as a pager, which works, but doesn't know how to scroll backwards. That's sad.	[reply]
Re^4: RFC: How to survive your first few months of Perl by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Nov 17, 2008 at 16:32 UTC
It all depends on your unix environment / version of more. HP-UX `more` handles paging backwards just fine, for example. I would agree that not being able to page backwards is a pain, but it is not a generic `more` problem, but rather a problem with the `more` program on specific distributions. --MidLifeXis	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: RFC: How to survive your first few months of Perl by cog (Parson) on Nov 12, 2008 at 10:58 UTC
Use strict and warnings! Doh! I was missing the obvious :-)	[reply]