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Author: Kevin Ryde
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Preview perl pod documentation
M-x perl-pod-preview displays a preview of Perl POD format documentation using "pod2man" and "man". It can show pod inlined in perl code or in a separate pod file. The best feature is that when re-previewing the same file or buffer the existing position in the preview is preserved, so if you've just changed the source a little you should be still quite close to where you were in the preview, to see how the change has come out. cperl-mode.el has M-x cperl-pod-to-manpage which does a similar thing, but it goes from the disk copy of a buffer, so it can't work out of tar-mode members etc, and it generates a new buffer every time. Running man for the formatting is pretty unsophisticated, but it's a fairly deliberate choice because pod2man+man is probably how most people will look at your docs, so seeing what it gives is a good thing. The `perl-pod-preview' docstring has some further notes.