NeilB

Neat!
I immediately changed my bash function that does this and replaced "perldoc -l" with "mpath". Thank you!

I usually type out komodo $(pm_which -q Some::Module) ( The -q is in case I mistyped the module. )

I have thought about writing a script that opens the file in komodo if it is running, and otherwise open it in another program.

Nice idea. This prompted me to write mless and medit (following mversion and mpath):

mless:

#!/bin/bash

if [[ "$PAGER" == "" ]]; then PAGER=less; fi

$PAGER "`mpath $*`"

medit:

#!/bin/bash

if [[ "$EDITOR" == "" ]]; then EDITOR="emacs -nw"; fi

$EDITOR "`mpath $*`"

What's wrong with perldoc -m ?

My favorite:

cpandoc -m

I have a script vipm that looks like this after evolving via much usage: http://tsibley.net/paste/2014-01-14aJ6L3Vad-vipm

It uses V.pm to find locally installed modules or cpandoc -m to open up remote ones.

Thanks for that!
The only thing that is wrong with your version is the name. The proper name for this tool is "vimp" :-)

ps: mine used to used perldoc -l. Now it uses mpath. I suppose that it is worth while re-reading the perl doc once a decade or so.

Another alternative to perldoc and cpandoc is my mcpandoc tool (which is really just cpandoc with some extra logic). It does what cpandoc does, only it tries to grab the module from a minicpan first. Pretty handy when you have limited network access!