On 12/07/2006 06:07 AM, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Not sure if fixed yet. At least print a message.
$ perldoc -f pack unpack|wc
416 2592 23553
$ perldoc -f pack|wc
416 2592 23553
$ perldoc -f unpack|wc
57 342 2739
You're quite right, perldoc should behave better in those cases.
Does anyone want to take over maintenance of perldoc and tend to things
like this? It's a pretty undemanding program, I think, but one where a
little interface insight/inspiration would go a long way. Sadly I just
don't have the time these days to devote to it.
Perldoc was never really "mine" per se -- I merely took it up once and
refactored its once-monolithic code. I never really understood its
insides beyond what I needed for refactoring it.
(Well, plus adding some minor sanity improvements when running under
MSWin, from back when I still mostly developed under MSWin machines and
was quite sensitive to things like the pager not being called properly
because of a Unixism gone wrong, etc. etc.)
Step right up, anyone interested!
