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Search your perl documentation w/ perldoc-search
With the perldoc-search program, you can easily search all your perl documentation to find where that elusive "add_build_element" method is documented.
When I say this:
perldoc-search add_build_element
I get this:
perltoc - perl documentation table of contents
Module::Build::API - API Reference for Module Authors
Module::Build::Cookbook - Examples of Module::Build Usage
Now I know where to find documentation and examples of this method. Anyone who wants to extend this, it is available in github at http://github.com/jbenjore/App-Perldoc-Search/tree/master and CPAN at http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Perldoc-Search.
I wrote this on the flight back from YAPC10. Just landed in Seattle.
Update: Aaaannnd, it appears Mike Schilli already wrote something similar. Somehow I missed it when I looked before. Dunno how, Perldoc::Search is such an easy name to find: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perldoc-Search.
:-)
--Larry Wall in <11091@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Yay (Score:1)
I'm glad you chose M::B as an example of usage - it is indeed annoying sometimes to figure out which POD file to look in for what you need.
Re: (Score:1)
Well... for truth, I wrote this program just to make it easy to find that one method. I could have grepped too, I know. This time I didn't.
fulltext index through Pod::POM::Web::Indexer (Score:1)
For info, Pod::POM::Web is a documentation viewer with an optional fulltext indexing module. You get a result like this :
Fulltext search for 'add_build_element'
Results 1 to 3 from 3
source [perl.org] Module/Build/Cookbook [perl.org] (2215) Module::Build::Cookbook - Examples of Module::Build Usage
...her stuff here...
);
$build->add_build_element('dat');
$build->create_build_scr.../...her stuff here...
);
$build->add_build_element('dat');
$build->create_build_scr.../...her stuff here...
);
$build->add_build_element('dat');
$build->create_build_scr...
source [perl.org] Module/Build/Base [perl.org] (738) Module::Build::Base - Default methods for Module::Build
...nfigData->feature(@_);
}
}
sub add_build_element {
my ($self, $elem) = @_; ...
source [perl.org] Module/Build/API [perl.org] (738) Module::Build::API - API Reference for Module Authors
...k
=head2 METHODS
=over 4
=item add_build_element($type)
[version 0.26]
Adds a new...
Results 1 to 3 from 3
perlindex (Score:1)
perlindex (part of the Text-English distribution) is also capable of doing fulltext searches:
$ perlindex add_build_element
1 0.239 lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Module/Build/Cookbook.pm
2 0.057 lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Module/Build/API.pod
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Re: (Score:1)
That's super-useful, and at least 13 years old. I can't believe I haven't found it yet. Thanks for the pointer.