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  • Yes, I noticed this also and asked myself the same question. Plus, perldoc sucks, and so does pod2html. Some really good job could be made here. Although I'm not very inclined to let this be made a part of the core.
    • perldoc sucks, and so does pod2html

      I replaced one (did you upgrade to Pod::Perldoc, or are you still using the old crap?), and I'm replacing the other in the next month (Pod::Simple::HTML)

      • Indeed blead has now Pod::Perldoc, and I'm thankful for it. (5.8.x has it probably too). At least the code of perldoc is now modular and clean; but I'm sure one can improve the command-line interface. I still need to grep *.pod :) I vaguely recall that Tom Christiansen did some work towards this. (At least I now use perldoc with vim as a pager, that permits better navigation than more/less/pg.)
        • I've found Tom's Pod stuff to be almost without exception unusably bad.

          But if you can dig some little bit of usefulness out of it and submit a patch to Pod::Perldoc that implements it, I'd be quite happy!

          BTW, Pod::Perldoc isn't just for blead -- just about anyone can upgrade their perldoc to use it, just via CPAN.

          • Answer 1: I don't know, last time I heard about it I was an average c.l.p.misc lurker.

            Answer 2: Hey, that's my line!

            Answer 3: I think it's in maint. But I haven't checked. My computers run 5.6.2 and 5.9.1 :)

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