plp13
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3 weeks ago Hi intelfx, thanks for your suggestion.
Support for inline links to section headings is in the works. In fact, the program already supports such links in whatis/apropos pages, and in the index page. However, the way these are implemented wouldn't work for man pages without reworking the code a bit.
So, this is a feature that will definitely happen at some point.
And yes, the next logical step after that would be having some sort of searchable table of contents (and perhaps a table of links) for the entire page. Implementing this will take some effort, though.
It would be nice if qman could somehow extract the page structure and present an "outline view" of the page, with potential fuzzy search capability for locating a (sub)section by name.
For instance, man.archlinux.org is able to extract (sub)section titles and other items into
id=attributes, which then allows easy linking and navigation to a specific manpage section or even toa a specific option or subcommand described in the man:It would be useful if qman could perform a similar process and present an outline view for navigation.
To be clear, in the above example of
tmux(1)man page I'm expecting a hierarchical outline view similar to the "Table of contents" at the link above, but with added subitems for each tmux subcommand:Would it be feasible to implement such a feature?