Graham Barr wrote:
> 
> On 8 Dec 2003, at 21:55, Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
>> Graham Barr wrote:
>>
>>> On 8 Dec 2003, at 20:42, Stas Bekman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also Graham, it'd be really nice to have search.cpan.org support 
>>>> 'exact match', many times I want to link to a module in the docs 
>>>> using search.cpan.org, and ?query=Foo::Bar is not the best choice as 
>>>> it gives you more than one matches most of the time and sometimes 
>>>> the right choice is not on the top. I think only when you say: 
>>>> ?query=Foo::Bar&mode=module it gives you that module first (e.g. 
>>>> search for CGI). But I want to be able to link directly to the 
>>>> latest version (that you get to after following one of the links 
>>>> from the search's output) and not search output.
>>>
>>> If you are trying to link to the POD of a module, then you should be 
>>> using /perldoc?CGI
>>
>>
>> No, I want to be able to link to the distribution dir, e.g.:
>> http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.00/
>> without that -3.00 version in the path, so it'll always point to the 
>> latest distro.
> 
> 
>   http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI.pm/

Is it possible to add this link to the output of search? Otherwise I'd never 
remember that this is the link to use? e.g.:

CGI
^^^
Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
CGI.pm-3.00 - 18 Aug 2003 - Lincoln D. Stein (Distro)
^^^^^^^^^^^                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^

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