linking to PODs on search.cpan.org (was Re: META.yml Update Proposal)
[email protected] (Graham Barr) Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:37:46 +0000
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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 Graham.