On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 01:44:17AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Theo, > > Theo Buehler wrote on Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 12:31:43AM +0200: > > > 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.
Please read nothing more into this than "please don't send a diff adding numbers to links, unless the numbers are actually needed to go to the right page." Such a diff would be a huge pain to verify. > The semantics of http://man.openbsd.org/foo is: > > Show me a manual page named "foo"; i don't know or don't care > in whichever section it might be. > > The semantics of http://man.openbsd.org/foo.1 is: > > Show me a manual page named "foo" from section "1". Yes, of course, but the problem with adding the section numbers is that <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/doas.8";>doas(8)</a> won't work, while the mistake <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/doas";>doas(8)</a>, still produces what I want. That's why I don't think that adding the numbers to the link, unless they are actually needed, is a good idea. That's all.
