Sorry if I disappeared. I can confirm that Pod::Index has nothing to do with the -X command-line option for perldoc.
At one point I had a patch for Pod::Perldoc where I added a -k flag for keyword searching, but I never got any response from the maintainer. I kind of gave up but continued to use it for my personal needs. I had a website demonstrating the keyword search at one point, but it died when I moved to another country since it was running from a machine in my living room! If anyone is interested in trying it, there is a sample CGI script called perldoc-k.cgi included in the pod-index distribution. This needs the modified Perldoc.pm which is only available via CVS (you can see it at http://annocpan.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/annocpan/pod-index/lib/Pod/ ). Cheers, Ivan On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Adriano Ferreira > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I think Pod::Index should do that. I am not sure if it does it. >> >> I don't think so. Pod::Index is much newer than this perldoc feature, >> and if I am not wrong, the information stored does not match the one >> expected at pod.idx. > > As far as I know perlpod was talking about X<> long before anyone > actually used the X<> > tags. > Then a few years ago Ivan has started to add these tags to the core > documentation and to > the core modules. He also released this indexer to actually make use > of the X<> tags. > Then he practically disappeared and no one picked up the project. > > Of course Pod::Indexer might generate some other format and not the > expected pod.idx > but as far as I know the any actual X<> tags were only added during > the 5.9 development. > > In any case I think it would be really good to start using them for > perldoc.perl.org and for the command line perl. I could then reuse > them in Padre as well. > > regards > Gabor >
