On Wed, 3 May 2000, Tom Roche wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a "good way" to read perldoc (the Perl
>> documentation format) from inside Emacs? By "good way" I mean
>> better than M-x shell-command "perldoc whatever".
Eli Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/4/00 9:59:19 AM >>>
> IIRC, the CPerl support for perldoc is actually pretty good. There's
> a cperl-perldoc-at-point (or something like that... it's in the
> CPerl menu, I think) that gets the docs for the keyword or whatever
> that the cursor is on. There's also a general command, whose name
> eludes me at the moment that lets you enter an arbitrary string.
Unfortunately the cperl-perldoc-* functionality seems to
> (require 'man)
> (Man-getpage-in-background word)))
which tends to limit its utility with Win32--my NT, anyway :-(
However, cperl-mode also has
> (defcustom pod2man-program "pod2man"
> "*File name for `pod2man'."
> :type 'file
> :group 'cperl)
> ;;; By Nick Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (with changes)
> (defun cperl-pod-to-manpage ()
> "Create a virtual manpage in Emacs from the Perl Online
Documentation."
> (interactive)
> (require 'man)
which suggest various means of working around this problem, as well as
WoMan.
Has anyone gotten cperl-perldoc-* working on Win32? If so, how?
Pointers to directions (or just educated guesses :-) are appreciated.
Please reply directly to me as well as the list/group, and
TIA, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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