On 29/05/2026 11:05, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi guys,
I recently stumbled across this commit:
commit db0faabe1d63abc710c2997077fec467b783fa13
Author: Pádraig Brady <[email protected]>
Date: Fri May 1 18:48:39 2026 +0100
doc: reference detailed "numeric mode" info from chmod.1
Note were links are not supported (like on Solaris or FreeBSD),
the text still displays normally.
-A numeric mode is from one to four octal digits (0\-7), derived by
+.ds cU https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node
+A \X'tty: link \*(cU/Numeric-Modes.html'\fBnumeric mode\fP\X'tty: link'
+is from one to four octal digits (0\-7), derived by
Holy cow! I of course appreciate usage of the support for OSC 8
hyperlinks that I slaved over to get into grotty(1) for groff 1.23 (July
2023), but this is an unnecessarily hard-core way to achieve what you're
doing, and moreover deprives users of groff's HTML and PDF output from
enjoying the convenience of the hyperlink.
Could groff be adjusted so that it supports
these tty links in html output?
Note the arch linux man pages support these formats it seems:
https://man.archlinux.org/man/tee.1
and that mentions that mandoc is used.
May I propose the following alternative?
A
.UR https://\:www\:.gnu\:.org/\:software/\:coreutils/\:manual/\
\:html_node/\:Numeric\-Modes\:.html
.B "numeric mode"
.UE
is from one to four octal digits (0\-7), derived by
Yes the most abstract the better, however
the issue with that is it displays the URL.
That gets messy fast.
thanks,
Padraig.
