Re: [PATCH 4/4] docs: add "page source" link to sphinx documentation

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 01:52:04PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 13:09, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Add a link to the top of the sidebar in every docs page that takes the
> > user back to the source code in gitlab.
> 
> This doesn't exactly link back to the source code, which is a bit
> confusing I think. Eg the 'page source' link in
> https://berrange.gitlab.io/qemu/system/quickstart.html
> goes to
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/blob/master/docs/system/quickstart.rst
> 
> which is a gitlab rendered version of the rST, not a view of
> the actual sources. Is it possible to link directly to an
> "actually the source code" view?

At the top of that page there are two buttons for switching between the
rendered view and source view. I don't think they're directly linkable
as it is switched with javascript.

At least the user can see exactly what source filename is involved though,
which was the key goal I had.

Regards,
Daniel
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