Hi,
After Sean's message below, I've volunteered to
spend some time giving some love and care to
perldoc.
If anyone would like co-maint, let me know!
In the short term I want to get my head round the
code, and work through the RT queue bugs and look
at the wishlist items.
After that... things I'm keen on looking at integrating
are the POD2IT patches for localised Perldocs, and
the Pod::Index work. So, if anyone has thoughts on
those, or other improvements, please let me know!
Cheerio,
osfameron
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From: Sean M. Burke
Date: December 7, 2006 19:04
Subject: Re: perldoc: deal with 2nd etc. arguments
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!
