At 2021-10-04T12:28:50-0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > What happens on such a system if you type > > $ man 2 open > > ? > > I think the system searches MANPATH or whatever, finds the first page > meeting the search criteria, and displays that. To see another page, > you'd have to use "-a" or alter the search path. > > In any case, any question of what to do with such ambiguity is decided > by the man system, not groff, and is orthogonal to hyperlink support.
Yup, all of this is correct as I understand it. As I was saying to Alex a bit earlier, I was attempting to consider ways we might take advantage of the OSC 8 communications channel to aid the man page librarian's job. > Nice work, by the way! I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward > to hyperlink support in ms(7) and URL macros that support gropdf. Thanks! We _do_ have one form of hyperlink support in ms(7); see doc/webpage.ms in the groff distribution for an example. But I like the idea of generalizing linking device control commands so that even "nroff -ms" produces clickable URLs in the terminal (given a document that defines them). Regards, Branden
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