From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-01-29T22:44:04+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc and hyperlinks

Quoteing vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU, on Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:01:45PM +0900:
> >However, when you say doc/my_file.rb, I need to see if I know anything 
> >about a file called 'my_file.rb' in the doc subdirectory or the 
> >directory containing the file containing the comment (phew!). I just 
> >don't have that information.
> >
> >I'm looking to see what it would take to add it, but I'm also worried 
> >about performance: with a large number of files and the potential for 
> >large numbers of spurious matches on things that look like file names, 
> >this could get slow.
> 
> Sounds painful, and not worth the effort. As a workaround, how about 

I agree. Magic is nice, but some kind of explicit markup like Joel
suggests would be fine, too.

Sam

> some way of relabeling a link: entry? Something like:
> 
>   label[link:files/doc/my_file_txt.html]
> 
> which would behave just like
> 
>   link:files/doc/my_file_txt.html
> 
> (which works now) but would look like
> 
>   label
> 
> in the browser?
> 
>