PDL::P...ommands(3pm)

📦 version 2.003, in ubuntu stonking

💖 PDL::Perldl2::Plugin::PDLCommands — or as the manual calls it, PDL::P...ommands (3pm) 🎀

okay bestie, listen up — this is the page for the plugin that gives the perldl shell all its little ✨ quality-of-life ✨ moments. It's from User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it is, and I say this with love, short. But every crumb matters. Let's go.

🌸 NAME 🌸

PDL::Perldl2::Plugin::PDLCommands — bestie, it implements the perldl aliases and escapes 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this plugin is the one running around backstage making the perldl shell feel cute. It implements all the various convenience features of the shell — which basically boil down to aliases plus some structured pre-processing of the command line you type in. Like, it reads what you typed before it actually runs, and does a lil glow-up on it. Iconic behaviour, honestly.

Here's the whole lineup, no gatekeeping:

  • q, x, exit, quit — all of these are shortcuts to quit the shell. Four ways to leave the party, pick your fav 🫶
  • ?? — this is an alias for apropos 🕵️
  • ? — this one is an alias for help 🙋
  • Autoquoting for arguments passed to help, usage, apropos, sig, badinfo, and demo — like, it quotes your args for you so you don't have to, we love a helper 💅
  • $PERLDL::ESCAPE at the start of a command line — put this at the front of a line and you escape to the shell. It defaults to "#" if you don't set it yourself ✨
no cap, that's the whole description. short and slay.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • "PDL::Perldl"
  • "Devel::REPL"

go read those too, iykyk 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Chris Marshall, <chm at cpan dot org> — a real one fr fr 🫡

Copyright (C) 2010 by Christopher Marshall

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

and that's the whole page, bestie — this doc was served up by perl v5.40.1 and dated 2026-03-08, straight from the source. mwah, go forth and quit the shell four different ways 💖✨🍓

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