Re: [Groff] inconsistent synopsis for .MAILTO

[Rick Richardson]

I might as well check in with my opinion...

        .LINK [<url> [<description>]]

e.g.

        .LINK http://www.dot.com/joecool/home.html "My Home Page"

and also:

        .LINK http://www.dot.com/joecool/home.html
        Home Page for
        Silly Groff Tricks
        .LINK

Thats one macro name to remember, no special characters to remember
or type, and it works with short or long text.  No?

Then there are the bonus "convenience" versions, for people like me
that hate to type one letter more than I have to:

        .HTTP [<shortened-url> [<description>]]
        .FTP [<shortened-url> [<description>]]

e.g.

        .HTTP www.dot.com/joecool/home.html "My Home Page"

and also:

        .HTTP www.dot.com/joecool/home.html
        Home Page for
        Silly Groff Tricks
        .HTTP

N.B. gnome-terminal, for one, recognizes all of the above as links, so
no problems with testing the links from, say, vim.

-Rick (I have been known to yank and put single letters, to avoid typing :-)
        

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:28:08AM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > Bernd Warken writes:
> > > The www.tmac macro .MAILTO has synopsis
> > > .MAILTO address@hidden "description"
> > 
> > > while both .URL and .FTP have
> > > .URL "description" prot:://host/dir/file
> 
> Sorry to be a smart aleck, but why are there separate "URL"
> and "FTP" macros?  Isn't ftp covered by URL already?  Come
> to think of it, isn't mailto, too?  Why not a unified link
> macro,
> 
>   .LINK "text" prot://host/dir/file
> 
> that works for all kinds of hyperlinks, like
> 
>   .LINK "Joe Cool" mailto:address@hidden
> 
> or
> 
>   .LINK "My home page" http://www.dot.com/joecool/home.html

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