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How to link to manpages?

When naming links to http://manpages.ubuntu.com (or other online sources for manual pages), I think man topic (e.g., man ls)--as suggested by andrewsomething's answer and others here--is the way to go …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
14 votes
2 answers
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Is there a reliable, release-agnostic way to link to manpages?

Linking directly to a specific manual page in the Ubuntu Manpage Repository is not ideal, because the URL points to a manpage for a specific Ubuntu release, which will become obsolete and may even one …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
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How to obtain a direct link to an answer?

Providing a link that sends someone directly to a particular answer (rather than the top of the question) is often quite useful. I know of several ways to do this, depending on your preferences and th …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
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How to link to a post in chat, to be accessed outside chat?

In chat, there is an option to link my next chat message as a reply to this. But I do not see a way to get a hyperlink to the chat transcript, at a particular post. I know this is possible (that is, …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
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Should posts be edited to have readable links?

If: you think the post will be better overall by collapsing a link into text, and the text is easily found and clicked on, and the text (or the context) is sufficiently detailed that it's clear what …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
5 votes
2 answers
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matched parentheses in hyperlinks are not handled correctly

When a hyperlink contains a ( character that is matched at the end of the URL by a ) character, AskUbuntu should recognize that the final ) character is part of the URL. However, currently that is not …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
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Are user-contributed hyperlinks always nofollow?

I learned (from Jorge Castro) that links on Ask Ubuntu are nofollow. Thus linking to some page (say, spam) in a post here doesn't increase that page's rank in search engines. Is this the case for lin …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
8 votes
2 answers
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What to do with answers that are just a link to a page that requires registration/login to v...

This answer is an example of an answer that is just a link, and to a page that requires a user account just to view. Creating an account on that external site is free. You can even log in with a Laun …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
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why the color different?

As jokerdino♦ says, this is because your browser shows links to pages you've visited (via the exact URL the link uses, that is) in one color, and links to pages you haven't visited (in this way) in an …
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Change in domain name

What to do with comments... I don't know if there's a better approach available than just manually removing all the comments that link to the old domain (and have thus become spam) and replacing them …
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