Feature request: Have HTML manpages link

[BsAtHome]

There are many manpages and they reference each other in "SEE ALSO" and other places using the name(section) format.

For example, linuxcnc(1) references halcmd(1). It would be nice if we just could click on a link in the HTML version. Very helpful in all man sections when digging through man pages. This could maybe/probably be done in the an asciidoctor filter (?) while generating the HTML?

It would probably also be interesting for the normal docs. But I'm not sure if that should be done using "normal" linking or post-processing. It is harder to do in normal docs than man pages, as man pages have a stricter format.

[hansu]

Do you mean with normal linking just adding links to the items in the "see also" section which points then to the corresponding man web page?

[BsAtHome]

Not only in the "see also" section. All occurrences of name(section) should link when they refer to an in-tree manual page. We have really many of them.

Don't know If you ever used pinfo (cmdline man/info reader). Pinfo will scan the manual page and make all name(section) references links you can browse between (scroll with arrow keys up/down) and go to using right arrow or back with left arrow. Not that it is the best program, but the navigation with links in manual pages is superb.

[note: example links do not point to a valid target, just an example]

Something like blabla(1) will link to program blabla in section 1 and we invoke foobar(1) to add suspense.