Hi Lennart, At 2023-01-10T17:21:54+0000, Lennart Jablonka wrote: > 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. I like this idea. It meshes well with another I've had to eliminate the necessity for lexgrog(1) by supporting a mode (selected by a register or string specified at formatting time) where the page formats the contents of the "Name" section, and _only_ that, and exits (technically, `nx`es). It would be up to man(1) to stuff the tag output into a temporary file and tell less(1) to use it, but that sort of thing is consistent with its existing feature set, I think. Regards, Branden
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