On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:01 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:59:15PM -0300, Álvaro Herrera wrote: > On 2020-Dec-10, Steven Pousty wrote: > > > They certainly do at the top of the page, that's why I sent the second > > email. I was hoping to have anchors down the page where that actual topic > > is. The rational for this is, when I write a blog post, teach a class, help > > someone on slack... I can give them the URL right to the section I want > > them to read. This anchor would prevent just giving the url to the whole > > page and telling them to search for it. > > Ah -- so what you want is to have something like an icon (typically a > chain link icon) that appears next to the title, and points to itself? > Many sites do that. I think it's a useful idea and we should consider > it, but it's a modification that would be done to the tooling and so > it'd affect the whole documentation, not just this page.
I see your point --- these sub-sections are mixed with others on the same page, so how would you know the link location? I usually dig through the sgml and find one, or add one if it is missing, but that is hardly scalable. Having a link icon makes sense --- even if they can just click on the subsection title and the URL changes to that section URL would be helpful.
+1
I would have used this numerous times recently when pointing people to where to find answers to their questions.