• You could use the perldoc tool that comes with Perl.
• You could google for site:perldoc.perl.orgkeyword.
• If you're looking for a specific man page, you could type doc://perlxxx in the Perlmonks search bar.
• If you're looking for the documentation on a specific function, you could type doc://funcname in the Perlmonks search bar.
• If you're looking for the documentation on a specific module, you could type mod://modname in the Perlmonks search bar.
• If you're looking for a module, you could search on CPAN.

Another good option, particularly with regards to Perl/Tk, is to read the Active State documentation.

In fact, if you've loaded ActiveState Perl on your machine, you probably have it as a local file (eg. "C:\Perl\html\index.html").

You can get a lot of what you need from their Tk documentation (eg. "C:\Perl\html\site\lib\Tk.html">).

If you're looking for a local resource for offline use, I don't personally know of anything aside from the perldoc command.

With Activeperl, if it is installed properly (and if you did the exe it should be) perldoc still works from the command line.

Simply do: start -> run -> cmd ->
perldoc -f print

Everything else it's internet search engines. search.cpan.org is always your friend.
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Somewhat off topic, but you should try the new Komodo 4 beta. I'm in your situation (vim at work, Komodo at home), and the vi keybindings in Komodo 4 are great (though incomplete).

Hi,

Maybe you should try Vim with perlsupport (plugin for vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=556).

With Vim you have variuos plugins (I recommend: perlsupport, taglist, perlcomp, minibufexpl, AutoFold, NERD_comments) that will make your life easier at writing/debbuging perl code. Screenshots here.

Key bindings are a little bit different from usual windows editors, but once learned they'll prove very usefull if you work in a mixed environment (I work with Windows, Solaris, HPUX, Linux - and I use vim/vi on each to edit text files).

Another big advantage is that you don't have to pay (or worse - use without paying) for Komodo or other commercial IDE.

1. Perldoc works on Win32 just like on Unix, but I see no index capabilities.

   perldoc Tk::Event
   [download]

2. You could download `tcgrep` from the Perl Power Tools project (which seeks to re-implement Unix in pure Perl), and use it to scan the HTML files. This is the solution I use on Windows; `tcgrep` rocks!

   tcgrep -ir TK_EVENTTYPE_ATOM C:\a\Perl\html\site\lib\Tk
   [download]

3. You could try `podgrep` from the pmtools distribution. I just now discovered this, and have not tried it yet.

As an additional means of accessing the locally installed Perl documentation, I would suggest Slaven Rezic's Tk::Pod and the tkpod program that comes with it.

Tk applications might look a little old-fashioned to most, but I found this tool to be valuable.

Instructions:

• Install Tk::Pod (using PPM or from CPAN using "cpan")
• Install perlindex the same way. If installing via CPAN, you should type "cpan Text::English". (perlindex might be what you're looking for anyway.)
• Run "perlindex -index" (wait).
• Run "tkpod".
• Select "Search Fulltext" from the "Search" menu.
• Type the keyword.
• Enjoy

Cheers,
Steffen

Hi Steffen,

I downloaded perlindex and tkpod from Active State (I am running on Windoz XP) and tried them out. perlindex -index created the indexes (at c:\ ). I tried tkpod, but the search failed because it could not find the indexes. Checking around I believe that perlindex is not recognizing windows correctly and also some config settings are not set right on my Active state perl.

I can probably hack it up and get it to work, but I noticed on your website you have a hacked up version already. Would it be closer to what I need, or should I hack up my own?

Thanks -Eugene

UPDATE- I found a patched version of perlindex (CPAN bugs area) that works with Windoz. It fixes the missing Config settings and TTY device errors on windows.

I also have tkpod mostly working except for some problems with Config again, but it looks like it will do most of what I need. Thanks

• Use, as mentioned by util, use perldoc, and tcgrep.
• You could use Windows find or search features.
• You could install grep; you can find it at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
• You could print the entire documentation tree out (it's in html), get a 3 hole punch, numerous tabs, and make yourself a set of printed documents, and spend some time building a table of contents and an index

And as far as the links being broken, I've never had that problem on mine. Perhaps you should contact O'Reilly about that. Also, I believe that the new version of the Perl CD Bookshelf does not have the Tk book on it.

use perldoc that comes with the perl distribution.

on windows I find it useful to have also cygwin installed. And from the cygwin shell I use perldoc...the latest perl package is 5.8.7 but you can compile it yourself

I personally highly recommend that you install cygwin. Within the setup you can specify Perl to be installed. This would enable you to use perldocs.

Saying so seems to imply that you can't use perldoc unless you install cygwin('s perl), which is not true. That's not what you say and I know the difference between a sufficient and a necessary condition, but then again the particular wording conveys a sense for the latter in addition to clearly stating the former, so your claim is likely to be misleading.

I did not intend to be misleading, just offering my personal preference. I have used both Active State and Cygwin's Perl, and I prefer the latter. To each his own.

Cheers,
Logan
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