[Tipz] Nautilus and POD documents

Ari Pollak ari at ccs.neu.edu
Tue Feb 1 10:01:05 EST 2005


Alternatively, you can install podbrowser (package podbrowser in 
Debian), and add it to the applications for opening perl files in Nautilus.

Ian Langworth wrote:
> I wanted a one click solution to viewing the POD of perl scripts or
> modules with Nautilus The solution: make sure Pod::Html is installed,
> and copy the following script to ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/podview:
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
>     for i in $@; do
>         t=`tempfile`
>         pod2html --infile=$i --outfile=$t \
>             --css='http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/bass/bass.css'
>         mozilla-firefox -remote "openURL(file://$t,new-window)"
>         ( sleep 2 && rm $t ) &
>     done
> 
> You may have to open up the nautilus-scripts directory and refresh.
> Afterward, right-clicking on a document shows a "Scripts" submenu, which
> contains a "podview" item. And, my stylesheet is pretty.
> 




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