Re: Opera + Firefox browser Shortcut for searching CPAN

[dbwiz]

An useful variation would be a bookmark with keyword "perldoc":

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?%s

When you type "perldoc Module::Name", it will take you directly to the docs.

However, you must provide an exact name. No search on partial matches is provided.

Update Removed a spurious "=" sign from the URL. Thanks ewijava.

[monkfan]

Have you tested it? Accessing perldoc of a module in CPAN is done via authors directory. Hence your solution will fail.

Alternatively this is the snippet to access perldoc.com website. Applicable for both Opera and Firefox.

http://www.perldoc.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?words=%s&restrict=perl5.8.4

[PodMaster]

Have you tested it?
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CGI
redirects to http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.07/CGI.pm

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Acme::MJD
redirects to http://search.cpan.org/~podmaster/Acme-MJD-0.02/lib/Acme/MJD.pm

[monkfan]

Have you tested it?

Yes. I have.
In that case a modification need to be made for dbwiz's snippet (note the removed '=' sign):

URL=http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?%s

Then it'll work. Thanks for notifiying, PodMaster.

[tlm]

Contrary to the search form at http://search.cpan.org, the redirection above appears to be case sensitive. E.g.

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?cgi

fails.