Make man page links clickable

[ottok]

The man pages include some links. Currently they are not rendered into real clickable links in seravo.com/docs:

It would be nice if they could be rendered. Links to external man pages could go to manpages.ubuntu.com, e.g. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/en/man1/rdiff-backup.1.html

[sjaks]

Idea for automating this in a script:

• start scraping the comma seperated list under SEE ALSO
• find enties starting with wp-* and find-replace them with markdown links pointing to seravo.com/docs/wp-$1
• find entries starting with wp and add links to developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/$1
• link rest to ubuntu man pages (maybe check if man page is found online)

[ottok]

Did you check that pandoc itself does not support some kind of link generation? Those items are after all links to begin with in the original man pages.

[sjaks]

Haven't come across such feature. Afaik, "links" in man pages are clickable due to the terminal emulator treating man page entries cmd(#) as links.