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Re: [Groff] More referenceability for -mdoc would be an improvement!?


From: Steffen Nurpmeso
Subject: Re: [Groff] More referenceability for -mdoc would be an improvement!?
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:29:11 +0200
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Hello Ralph,

Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
 |Without suggesting any of this is a good idea...  :-)

It'd be brilliant if it were 1984.  Yes.

 |> I'd also look into less(1) and write a proof-of-concept patch.
 |> (Again, the idea is to have a simple command shortcut, say, ^X, read
 |> in a decimal number, expand that to a backspace sequence and start a
 |> simple search.)
 |
 |You may want to look into less's `tags' support, including the
 |LESSGLOBALTAGS environment variable.

Well let's see how we can get it into less(1).  Maybe the tag
support is a way, especially overloading [tT] for jumping along
several .Ix anchor manifestations.
Thanks Ralph.

--steffen



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