From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Amin Bandali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shorter URL for to docs Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 10:21:26 -0400 Message-ID: <87sh3ujjq1.fsf@aminb.org> References: <859025AD-50D8-455E-AC87-EBA7A4723DED@scratch.space> <20180803193805706501791@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533393508 4638 195.159.176.226 (4 Aug 2018 14:38:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2018 14:38:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Van L , Bob Proulx Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 04 16:38:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1flxhH-00017b-AV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 16:38:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55263 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1flxjN-0004Ip-TM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 10:40:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1flxTH-0000lj-N9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 10:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1flxTG-0006MI-BH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 10:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45209) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1flxT8-0006HN-5n; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 10:23:46 -0400 Original-Received: from cpe00fc8db93e03-cm00fc8db93e00.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([99.228.14.66]:36076 helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1flxT7-0000Rx-R7; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 10:23:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 10:40:05 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117634 Archived-At: Van L writes: >>> Is there a chance for the docs' URL to be shorter? compare the followin= g. >>>=20 >>> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Integer.html >>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Integer-Type.= html >>=20 >> Not really. You can use "s" instead of "software" but that is about >> it. That "s" part is really meant as a typing aide and little more. >> It isn't meant to be used as a canonical name for the page. >>=20 >> https://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Integer-Type.html > > That's too bad. I had my fingers crossed for > > https://emacs.gnu.org/elisp/Integer-Type.html Indeed, as Bob said, the /s/ seems to be the only shorthand currently available. But I agree that having shorter urls would be nice. I'll raise this with webmasters@ and see if we could maybe set up redirects like these for GNU package manuals: https://man.gnu.org/pkgname/node/* =E2=86=92 https://www.gnu.org/s/pkgname/= manual/html_node/* https://man.gnu.org/pkgname/mono/* =E2=86=92 https://www.gnu.org/s/pkgname/= manual/html_mono/* https://man.gnu.org/pkgname/* =E2=86=92 https://www.gnu.org/s/pkgname/= manual/* A subdomain per package might make sense too (as in your example for emacs), though it'll require more work (either manual or automatic DNS updates) and may not scale too well. -amin