On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 11:10, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 10:56, Peter Olsson wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I often want to link to specific compiler options in your online docs > > but the problem is that the named anchors are placed after the name of > > the option so when the link is clicked it will only show the > > description. > > > > Example: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html#index-Wshadow > > Will show the description for -Wshadow but not the name -Wshadow itself. > > > > I think it would be very useful to be able to link in such a way that > > the name of the option also becomes visible. If this somehow breaks > > backwards compatibility you could introduce new ones that refers to > > the name and let the old ones refer to the description like it is > > today. > > Yes, it's annoying. The HTML is auto-generated by the makeinfo > program, so as far as I know we don't have much control over the > placement of those anchors.
Maybe it's because we have @opindex entries after the @item e.g. @item -Wfatal-errors @opindex Wfatal-errors @opindex Wno-fatal-errors But I don't know texinfo or makeinfo well enough to be sure, or if we can do it differently.
