Tom Holub <doosh@best.com> writes:
> "perldoc -f" is a documented switch for looking up "BuiltinFunction"s,
> according to the man page. The man page does not say that perldoc will
> mangle the formatting if you use it (though clearly it does that).
I'm sorry, I'm not seeing what you're seeing. perldoc -f localtime works
just fine for me. Could you give me more details? (I'm the maintainer of
the POD translators that perldoc uses.)
Perhaps you just forgot to tell perldoc that you actually wanted formatted
output? Try perldoc -t -f localtime and see if that's more what you
expect.
> This is really all off-topic; I just don't see POD as a reasonable base
> format, though its function in self-documenting scripts is kind of neat.
Works fine for technical documentation; all new INN documentation is being
written in POD.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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