On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > This allows you to access the documentation for all installed modules and > scripts via your browser (provided that you have a cgi-enabled webserver on > your workstation.) > > It also provides some other query functionality, including fetching a list of > installed modules or scripts and listing the subroutines which are defined in > a module (handy for rooting-out undocumented functions.)
I personally develop on UNIX/Linux and use Emacs , under X-windows, as my development environment with CPerl-mode. With this I have a menu item to bring up perldoc either on a word at cursor or arbitrary request entered in the 'minibuffer'. The editor frame splits into two windows and I am able not only to read but to copy/paste to my code as required. If I don't know what I want, I use perlindex at the command line and have a nightly cron job rebuilding that index. sometimes its nice to get really pretty docs...in which case I go the web.
