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>> 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. What in the world would I type 10 characters instead of 3??? I had no idea what those do, since I don't use the program. Let's see... As for the FAQ, um well, I don't have a great deal of cause to consult it. :) Just kidding. Actually, I would always rather run my own searches. > 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". Considering there's no "tchrist" there, either, it's immaterial to me. I have negative reason to recreate a perfectly functioning wheel. :) That said, a very long time ago I wrote a spec, and a program, that did a lot of neat stuff with perl documentation. Because I couldn't find a Prisoner of Bill to make sure it ran there for me, it died. --tomThread Previous | Thread Next