On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 09:34:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 27/11/2024 23:59, [email protected] wrote:
OTOH, the venerable groff has gained a hyperlink markup
recently [1] ("recently" in its time scale), thus bridging yet another
gap separating man and info.
Does it affect "man" when called in a terminal application (so usually
"less" is used as a pager)?
Not magically, I guess. I think we'll still need the viewers being able
to "use" the new markup and the footwork of updating the docs.
At least Emacs and Vim use heuristics with
plenty of shortcomings to recognize cross-references to other man pages (https://manpages.debian.org - debiman works better because it has index of man pages from all packages). It is even worse with links to other sections and to notes in the same document.
doc-base maintains some document index for yelp/khelpcenter/dhelp/dochelp.
No, I think that new markup is just a way of replacing the heuristic
with knowledge. The knowledge still has to come in :-)
Cheers
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