Re: `perldoc -f` doesn't work for me

2015-05-25 Thread pierrot
Since "perldoc" and related code is written in perl, you can use a debugger to debug it. You can do: perl -d `which perldoc` -f sort See: * http://perl-begin.org/topics/debugging/ Thank you very much, Shlomi!! I debugged perldoc as you suggested and found the error. Basically, the p

Re: `perldoc -f` doesn't work for me

2015-05-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Pablo! See below for my response. On Sat, 23 May 2015 03:10:18 -0300 Pablo wrote: > Hi. > > Something really odd is happening to me. For example, if I do `perldoc > -v $_` I get the information about $_ as expected, but whenever I try > `perldoc -f sort` I get this message: > > /No docum

`perldoc -f` doesn't work for me

2015-05-23 Thread Pablo
Hi. Something really odd is happening to me. For example, if I do `perldoc -v $_` I get the information about $_ as expected, but whenever I try `perldoc -f sort` I get this message: /No documentation for perl function 'sort' found./ It seems that perldoc doesn't find any Perl builtin functi