Pod::Pe...:ToText(3pm)

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version 5.42.3 · 8 versions
, in alpine 3.24

✨ NAME ✨

Pod::Perldoc::ToText — the lil' plugin that lets Perldoc render Pod as plain ol' plaintext 💖 (this one lives in the 3pm section of the Perl Programmers Reference Guide, iykyk)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

perldoc -o text Some::Modulename

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: this is a "plug-in" class — yes, those scare quotes are canon — that lets Perldoc use Pod::Text as a formatter class. That's the whole gig, and she ate 💅

It supports the following options, which are explained over in Pod::Text:

  • alt
  • indent
  • loose
  • quotes
  • sentence
  • width

For example:

perldoc -o text -w indent:5 Some::Modulename

💀 CAVEAT 💀

Real talk, bestie: this module may change to use a different text formatter class in the future, and this may change what options are supported. So like… don't build your whole personality on these options staying put 😭

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • Pod::Text
  • Pod::Perldoc

Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved.

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

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. (No cap, that's the actual warranty situation 🙈)

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Current maintainer: Mark Allen "<mallen@cpan.org>"

Past contributions from: brian d foy "<bdfoy@cpan.org>" Adriano R. Ferreira "<ferreira@cpan.org>", Sean M. Burke "<sburke@cpan.org>"

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