From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T07:09:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

Daniel Carrera wrote:
>>Furthermore, RDoc is the perldoc semi-equivalent, and the new
>>generation of RDoc (in the works) adds the following benefits:
>> - viewable via command-line (ri)
>> - installable to system-wide location for easy reference
> 
> 
> Perldoc IS viewable via command-line.  How else would you use it?

I think he meant this benefit was added to rdoc.

> 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.

I see no reason why this wouldn't be a good thing. If you're
writing to the console, invoke a pager.

Dave?


Hal