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[perl #27886] for any perl thing, perldoc -f should cough up some tip

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From:
Brian Fraser via RT
Date:
May 27, 2012 04:08
Subject:
[perl #27886] for any perl thing, perldoc -f should cough up some tip
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-7788-1338116888-1166.27886-15-0@perl.org
On Thu Jun 26 04:30:57 2008, renee.baecker@smart-websolutions.de wrote:
> Attached is a patch that makes perldoc display parts of perlop.pod when 
> you want perldoc -f qr etc. Suggestions are welcome.
> Maybe we should add another option (e.g. "-o") instead of using -f...
> 
> To get reasonable results for things like "tr" I'm going to add more 
> X<...> entries in perlop.pod.
> 

Looks like this functionality is present in the perldoc that shipped
with 5.16.0. Should this ticket be closed?

--hugmeir


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