On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 09:42:07PM +0200, Paul Kelly wrote:
> Hi misc,
> 
> www/faq/faq7.html links to termcap(5) but the link is simply
> http://man.openbsd.org/termcap, which ends up at termcap(3). A diff is
> included below.

Fixed, thanks!

> Also an observation: on faq7.html linked text often specify the specific
> section that is being linked, but the actual links often do not. For
> instance:
> 
> $ grep man.openbsd.org www/faq/faq7.html | head -n 10
> <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/wscons";>wscons(4)</a> console driver.

[...]

> Most of the time there are no collisions, but sometimes there are (as in the
> case of termcap). Is it a worthwhile exercise to update the links to ensure
> that they point at the right sections?

I don't think so.  The numbers are added in the link text to make it
plain that we link to a man page and since this is the usual form of
referring to a man pgae.  However, we try to omit the numbers from the
link itself whenever possible.

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