From: "Luke A. Kanies" <luke@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T07:07:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> Perldoc IS viewable via command-line.  How else would you use it?
>
> As for ri, I still think it shouldn't just dump the whole documentation
> on the terminal, but it should let you scroll.  Like man pages and
> perldoc.

Shouldn't it just use the PAGER or READER environment variable?  I don't
really know what the difference is between the two, since they're always
set the same for me, but I know perldoc uses one of them, and ri should do
the same, at least on Unix.  That's what they're for, and it certainly
provides a more consistent interface (consistent with man, that is).

Luke

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