From e3e5e1ead913680c13757a1af36ab093b6ff8390 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gurusamy Sarathy Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:33:10 +0000 Subject: add Term::ANSIColor, perldelta notes on Pod::Man, and fix a bug in Pod::InputObjects (from Russ Allbery) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5549 --- pod/perldelta.pod | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'pod') diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 05481e13b3..052162b49e 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -1746,7 +1746,18 @@ For details and examples, please see L. =item Pod::Text and Pod::Man -[TODO - Russ Allbery ] +Pod::Text has been rewritten to use Pod::Parser. While pod2text() is +still available for backwards compatibility, the module now has a new +preferred interface. See L for the details. The new Pod::Text +module is easily subclassed for tweaks to the output, and two such +subclasses (Pod::Text::Termcap for man-page-style bold and underlining +using termcap information, and Pod::Text::Color for markup with ANSI color +sequences) are now standard. + +pod2man has been turned into a module, Pod::Man, which also uses +Pod::Parser. In the process, several outstanding bugs related to quotes +in section headers, quoting of code escapes, and nested lists have been +fixed. pod2man is now a wrapper script around this module. =item SDBM_File @@ -1769,6 +1780,12 @@ no longer requires syslog.ph to exist. Sys::Hostname now uses XSUBs to call the C library's gethostname() or uname() if they exist. +=item Term::ANSIColor + +Term::ANSIColor is a very simple module to provide easy and readable +access to the ANSI color and highlighting escape sequences, supported by +most ANSI terminal emulators. It is now included standard. + =item Time::Local The timelocal() and timegm() functions used to silently return bogus -- cgit v1.2.1