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On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:08:35AM -0500, Matt Sergeant wrote: > Tom Christiansen wrote: >> I must admit that I have never used this perldoc thing. >> >> Ever. Truly. >> > I think you're in a minority there - very few people look for the > documentation for perl functions by loading "man perlfunc" and searching > through, most do "perldoc -f <function>". And when helping people out on > IRC or mailing lists I never load up each perlfaq file and grep through > - perldoc -q is MUCH more efficient. I'm one of the users that mostly uses perldoc in combination with -f; for perldoc -q, I usually don't remember the question. And I'd never use perldoc manpage; if only because 'man' is less than half the characters of 'perldoc'. Though sometimes 'perldoc Some::Module' for a module that hasn't been installed in the usual way can be handy. > I'm actually surprised you've never used either of those features. > > It's also very useful (vital even) on Windows (except Cygwin) where > there is no "man". Yeah, but then, Windows doesn't come with Perl either.... ;-) AbigailThread Previous | Thread Next