From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T07:09:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:07:45AM +0900, Luke A. Kanies wrote:
> 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).


I didn't know about those variables.  How do they work?

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