RE: Seeking Pod::Simple::ANSI

Thanks, that worked just as I needed.

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"Hingsbergen, Ed" <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello POD-people,

> I am looking for what amounts to Pod::Simple::ANSI.

> I wish to be able to use POD content from within a program,
> specifically, to use a section of the POD from a library module (using
> Pod::Select - I'm currently tied to Perl 5.28.3) as documentation in the
> help screen of a program that uses that module. I would prefer render it
> appropriately on my ANSI display, rather than to resort to the plain
> text output of Pod::Simple::Text.

If by that you mean some amount of color highlighting using ANSI escape
sequences, Pod::Text::Color provides that, although it's quite
conservative and limited.  There is a Pod::Text::Color::Delight module on
CPAN that is much more aggressive about coloring things and may be more
appealing.

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