From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E228C54EBC for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:30:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230138AbjAJRaZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:30:25 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54660 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234308AbjAJR2d (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:28:33 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:28:31 PST Received: from mail.ljabl.com (mail.ljabl.com [IPv6:2a01:4f8:173:2dd8::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B08E7479F7 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:28:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ljabl.com; s=20220906; t=1673371309; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=AcWEIGzCDChpPSQg7WDVyHon6fS0tRgSVyAsbTxZJ+U=; b=aNMDzgdJ/DsaMau/3Bcxc4+FaYBiptf5c6QVTve/yElHZ3lWSMy02cyIx4lJrrXPwrxDPy sgb6m2RMD5PWbXdz/Bb3GGzBXqBtEz2/GgxYf29SzHnrpewfjqepB4kjV3JzZNgxJIZ5ms 6vt3XhfJfcG4DMl0Y6tf7oxiB9RJwuY= Received: by ljabl.com (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id b3e9b4e1 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:21:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (beryllium [local]) by beryllium (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 0e32f11c; Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:21:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:21:54 +0000 From: Lennart Jablonka To: "G. Branden Robinson" , Alejandro Colomar Cc: groff , linux-man Subject: Re: Manual page sections shouting Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: "G. Branden Robinson" , Alejandro Colomar , groff , linux-man References: <4ab3e3aa-9b05-765a-ba44-06bf39994d81@gmail.com> <20230107101752.p66xbjbojut4azes@illithid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20230107101752.p66xbjbojut4azes@illithid> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org 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