Re: Manual page sections shouting

[Lennart Jablonka <vol@ljabl.com>]

Quoth G. Branden Robinson:
>_If_ we added yet another groff extension to man(7), analogous to
>mdoc(7)'s `Sx`, we could support hyperlinks directly to man page
>sections and subsections.  (On terminals, we'd still need a way to mark
>locations in the page text as link targets, and for it to be practically
>useful, pagers would have to grow more features.  Given the amount of
>idiocy, particularly from people who think that a URL in a terminal
>window is a security risk in some way that a URL on a web page isn't,
>that Egmont Koblinger has had to put up with in promulgating OSC 8, I
>would not count on the infrastructure for this materializing soon.)  But
>for PDF all the pieces are in place; they just need some glue in the
>groff man(7) package.

Surely man(1) and man(7) could coorperate to produce a tags file that 
could be used by a pager.  On OpenBSD, you can use less(1)’s :t to jump 
to a bunch of stuff in a man page.

-- 
Lennart