Homepage: https://github.com/HaraldJoerg/emacs-perl-doc
Author: Harald Jörg
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Read Perl documentation
This file contains a command to read Perl documentation in Emacs. It uses two external commands which come with Perl: `perldoc` to locate the Perl documentation for the Perl modules installed on your system, and `pod2html` to format the documentation to HTML. This HTML version is then displayed using Emacs' "simple HTML renderer" shr. Motivation Perl documentation is written in a markup format called POD ("Plain Old Documentation") and is usually converted to other formats for reading by humans. The documentation used to be available in Emacs for a long time in 'info' or 'man' format. However, Perl does no longer ship 'info' files, and the software available from CPAN never did. 'man' is not available on all platforms and allows only rather restricted formatting, most notably linking between documents does not work. On the other hand, Perl provides a converter from POD to HTML. HTML is well supported by Emacs and is well suited for presentation of structured documents. The user visible benefits over the other formats are: * Works nicely on platforms which do not have man * Unlike with 'man', Hyperlinks between POD documents work and resolve to POD documentation on your system, no web server required. * Makes use of Emacs faces: variable-pitch font for text, fixed-pitch for code, italics for, well, italics