[emacs] perldoc on windows (update)

LanX has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

before I reinvent the wheel:

...cperl-mode comes with a lot of options to show perldocs, but requires external unix tools like man and nroff to work, which is a problem on Win without cygwin.

I'm hacking something with pod2man and woman.el (emacs built-in interpretation of nroff output), but probably someone allready knows a drop-in replacement which works generally?

Disclaimer:

This thread is intended for Emacs users programming Perl.

I'm not interested to explain or defend the basics of an Integrated Development Environment to non-believers.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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Re: [emacs] perldoc on windows by Discipulus (Canon) on Mar 23, 2018 at 16:13 UTC
Hello LanX, dunno if useful but UnxUtils has a working `man` not a `nroff` although. To see documentation I use Jenda's macro `pdoc=perldoc -o html -T -w index $* > %TEMP%\perldoc_temp.html && start %TEMP%\perldoc_temp.html` Maybe you can spawn an html page and stop. L* There are no rules, there are no thumbs.. Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: [emacs] perldoc on windows by LanX (Saint) on Mar 23, 2018 at 16:31 UTC
Thanks, but spawning a browser to show an html-page is already easy, I use it to inspect the POD of the files I'm editing. Having the perldoc directly in another Emacs pane without switching the application has many advantages: you can edit the file directly, for instance search and cut and paste code examples from a module I can build keyboard-macros which use this text you get an index inside imenu to navigate it this imenu index is shown in a left pane for navigation when ECB or similar is activated auto-expansion like `dabbrev-expand` is parsing the man buffer for possible expansions revisiting the man-page is faster if the man-buffer already exists inside emacs the internal window-management sparse me from adjusting the browser and editor window ... (certainly forgot to mention other stuff) Additionally does cperl-mode come with more DWIM logic, like `cperl-perldoc-at-point` which reads the word under the cursor and automatically calls `perldoc -f <word>` instead of `perldoc <word>` if it's a function. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: [emacs] perldoc on windows by fishmonger (Chaplain) on Mar 23, 2018 at 15:28 UTC
What's wrong with using perldoc which comes with perl, even on Windows?	[reply]
Re^2: [emacs] perldoc on windows by LanX (Saint) on Mar 23, 2018 at 15:32 UTC
I want the full IDE integration without needing to switch to the console and copy and paste the name of the doc. update and perldoc is using Win's `\|more` as pager, which is quite ... "rudimentary". Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: [emacs] perldoc on windows by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Mar 23, 2018 at 17:24 UTC
Refer to ENVIRONMENT on how to use other pagers. Bill	[reply]
Re^4: [emacs] perldoc on windows by LanX (Saint) on Mar 23, 2018 at 17:29 UTC
Re^5: [emacs] perldoc on windows by VinsWorldcom (Prior) on Mar 23, 2018 at 18:03 UTC
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Re^5: [emacs] perldoc on windows by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Mar 23, 2018 at 22:41 UTC
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Re^3: [emacs] perldoc on windows by haj (Vicar) on Mar 24, 2018 at 10:57 UTC
Regarding the update: To get around the Win 'more', you can invoke 'M-x shell-command perldoc ...' to get the results in an emacs buffer. No console required, but either copypasting names or wrapping shell-command into an emacs macro are needed.	[reply]
Re^4: [emacs] perldoc on windows by LanX (Saint) on Mar 24, 2018 at 11:42 UTC
Re^5: [emacs] perldoc on windows by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Mar 25, 2018 at 13:24 UTC
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