DESCRIPTION

To navigate through the documentation one could use

Hyperlinks

A click on a hyperlink display the corresponding Pod documentation (if there is any) in the same window. An URL will be displayed in a web browser. A man page will be displayed in a man viewer (if one is available).

With <Button-2> the documentation is loaded into a new window (<Shift-Button-1> works also for those with only a 2 button mouse).

Selection

A double click tries to load the documentation for the selected word in the same window.

If the "Shift" key is simultaneously pressed a new browser window is opened.

Key bindings

The Tk::Pod::Text widget is based on the Tk::More widget inheriting its key bindings.

Search

Pressing <Key-/> lets you search in the displayed documentation.

Section Menu

The Section Menu

The 'Section' menu allows one to directly jump to the start of a section in the documentation.

Action Menu

If you press the right mouse button you get a popup menu that allows:

o Back

in history of displayed documentation

o Forward

in history of displayed documentation

o Reload

the documentation

o Edit Pod

Start editor with source of the displayed document.

The used editor is selected by the first definition of the environment variables "TKPODEDITOR", "XEDITOR", "VISUAL", "EDITOR" or as default /usr/bin/vi. If no terminal is available (or on Windows platforms), the ptked editor (bundled with Perl/Tk) will be used instead.

See also the menu entries 'File' -> 'Edit' and 'File' -> 'Edit with ptked'.

o Search fulltext

Full text search of the Pod in the perl library directories. (Note: to use it one has to install the perlindex distribution and build an index for the perl documentation, see Text::English)

The remaining menu entries are the same as in normal "Text" widgets.

Tree view

You can toggle the tree view of all installed modules on or off with the 'View' -> 'Pod Tree' menu entry. The tree view is organized in three sections: Perl language (general documentation about Perl), Pragmata, and Modules. The labels in the tree are colored, where green means ``standard module which comes with the Perl core distribution'', red means ``locally installed module, probably from CPAN'', and grey means ``no module available, look at the subtree''.

The tree data is cached in a temporary directory on a per-perl-version and per-user basis. A reload can be forced with the Reload entry in the action menu of the tree view. With the Search entry a search in the tree can be performed. The Show modules at CPAN entry is highly experimental - you can download, extract and look at the documentation of all CPAN modules.

KEYWORDS

pod, browser, tk, hypertext

AUTHOR

Achim Bohnet <[email protected]>

Current maintainer is Slaven Rezic <[email protected]>

Copyright (c) 1997-1998 Achim Bohnet. All rights reserved. This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.