Re: perldoc -f qw (and others)

brian d foy wrote:
> In article
> <[email protected]>, Flavio
> Poletti <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>If you think this could be helpful, I'd be glad to propose the patch to
>>Mr. Sean M. Burke, who seems to be the responsible for Pod::Perldoc
>>maintenance. The patch seems to work on my system but - ehr - that's only
>>my system :)
> 
> This is a bad idea. Where is it going to end? What other patches will
> we need to make the -f switch do something its not documented to do,
> which is look up things in perlfunc?

Rather than expanding the scope of -f, I've proposed adding a new 
switch, -k, for "keyword search", which is based on the X<> indexing 
labels in the documentation. See the code at 
http://pod-indexing.annocpan.org/pod-indexing-snapshot/lib/ and the web 
version at http://pod-indexing.annocpan.org/perldoc-k.cgi?keyword=%26 . 
Pod::Index is already on CPAN. Ideally, I'd like my patch to make it to 
Pod::Perldoc. However, Sean Burke never seems to reply to my emails...

Cheers,
Ivan