Function: cperl-perldoc

cperl-perldoc is an autoloaded, interactive and byte-compiled function defined in cperl-mode.el.gz.

Signature

(cperl-perldoc WORD)

Documentation

Run perldoc on WORD.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el.gz
;; By Anthony Foiani <afoiani@uswest.com>
;; Getting help on modules in C-h f ?
;; This is a modified version of `man'.
;; Need to teach it how to lookup functions
;;;###autoload
(defun cperl-perldoc (word)
  "Run `perldoc' on WORD."
  (interactive
   (list (let* ((default-entry (cperl-word-at-point))
                (input (read-string
                        (cperl--format-prompt "perldoc entry" default-entry))))
           (if (string= input "")
               (if (string= default-entry "")
                   (error "No perldoc args given")
                 default-entry)
             input))))
  (require 'man)
  (let* ((case-fold-search nil)
	 (is-func (and
		   (string-match "^\\(-[A-Za-z]\\|[a-z]+\\)$" word)
		   (string-match (concat "^" word "\\>")
				 (documentation-property
				  'cperl-short-docs
				  'variable-documentation))))
	 (Man-switches "")
         (manual-program (concat "perldoc -i" (if is-func " -f"))))
    (Man-getpage-in-background word)))