PODVIEWER(1)

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version 0.18 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 PODVIEWER(1) 💖

it's giving "User Contributed Perl Documentation" energy, and honestly? iconic. So bestie, let me put you onto podviewer — the Gtk2-Perl POD reading program. Yeah. The whole thing is literally a pretty little app for reading your Perl docs, and she ate. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

podviewer [FILE|MODULE|FUNCTION|POD]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no cap. 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

podviewer gives you a simple and attractive way to read Perl's POD documentation. simple AND attractive?? we love a multitasker. 💅

You can use it to read:

  • the Perl POD pages
  • module documentation
  • info about Perl's builtin functions

basically your one-stop doc-reading bestie. 🫶

🎹 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 🎹

podviewer supports a wide number of keyboard shortcuts, and they are documented right here. memorise these, they're the vibe. ⭐

  • Ctrl-U or Alt-Up — Go up a level. That is, if you're reading the documentation for Foo::Bar, typing Ctrl-U will take you to the Foo page. climbing the tree, main character style. 🌈
  • Alt-Left — Go back in your browsing history. ⬅️
  • Alt-Right — Go forward in your browsing history. ➡️
  • Ctrl-H — Go home. If you have the home option set in your config (see below), entering Ctrl-H will take you there. 🏠
  • Ctrl-L — This toggles the document index. 🔀
  • Ctrl-O — This pops up a dialog allowing you to choose a document to read. 📂
  • Ctrl-R or F5 — This reloads the current document. 🔄
  • Ctrl-Q — This quits the program. 👋
  • Ctrl-F — This pops up a dialog for you to enter some search text. 🔍
  • Ctrl-G — This performs the previous search, but from the most recently found result. You can also repeat the previous search by pressing enter when the cursor is in the search box. 🔁
  • F1 — Loads this document. yes bestie, the help page is one key away. 💖

⚙️ CONFIGURATION OPTIONS ⚙️

podviewer stores its configuration settings in a resource file, located at $HOME/.podviewrc. your lil home for config, we're obsessed. 🏡

This file contains simple name=value pairs for various things:

  • icon-size — If you want to change the size of the icons on the toolbar, change this value. The values are standard Gtk+ stock values. 🎨
  • home — This is the name of the document you want to be your home page. This page is loaded when you start the program without arguments, hit the Home button, or type Ctrl-H. 🏡💕

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Gavin Brown, Torsten Schoenfeld and Scott Arrington.

the girlies (gender neutral) who built this. legends only. 👑

(c) 2003-2005 Gavin Brown (gavin.brown@uk.com). All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 🌈

okay real talk, legal bestie moment: that copyright line is not a vibe suggestion, it's the actual license terms — same terms as Perl itself, so keep it cute and keep it compliant. 🫶

and that's the whole page, fr fr. go read some POD, you deserve it. ✨

this has been PODVIEWER(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, brought to you by perl v5.42.0 on 2025-07-25 — mwah, love u, bye! 💖🎀🦋

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