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NAME

Tk::Pod_usage - How to use the perl/Tk POD browser widget

DESCRIPTION

To navigate through the documentation one could use

A click on a hyperlink display the corresponding documentation (if there is any) in the same window.

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.

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

Section Menu

The Section Menu

The 'Section' menu allows 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 Reload

the documentation

o Edit

start editor with source of the displayed document.

The used editor is selected by the first definition of the environment variables XEDITOR, VISUAL, EDITOR or as default /usr/bin/vi.

o Search ...

Full text search of the POD in the perl library directories. (Note: to use it one has to install perlindex distribution.)

SEE ALSO

tkpod perlpod pod2man pod2text pod2html Tk::Pod Tk::Pod::Text

KEYWORDS

pod, browser, tk, hypertext

AUTHOR

Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de>

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.