On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 09:34:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 27/11/2024 23:59, to...@tuxteam.de 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 -- t
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