Opened 8 years ago

Closed 4 years ago

#150 closed defect (fixed)

perl: Improve perldoc behavior

Reported by: dmik Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: *none Version:
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc:

Description

As of perl RPM 5.16.1-4 (to be released overnight), perldoc finally works. There are a few glitches however:

  • We lack an OS/2 port of groff so the default formatter doesn't work, you have to use the -t option to force a simple text formatter. This option is the default on Win32, we should either make the same for O/S/2 or port groff.
  • Perldoc output only uses LF as line separator so lines are shifted on the screen and you need some Unix pager like less explicitly to fix that. A better fix is needed. BTW it seems that there is a common problem as if you e..g will try git add -i (interactive git add interface written in Perl) and ask for a diff you will get the same problem.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Silvan Scherrer, 6 years ago

Component: *none

as groff is done, this could be enabled

comment:2 by Silvan Scherrer, 4 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

I'm pretty sure this works now. If not please open a ticket at our github perl repo.

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