> > And since it's specific to the macOS Terminal application
It's indicative of a much larger issue — there's no formal, standardised scheme for man page URLs. I encountered many variants <https://github.com/Alhadis/Roff.js/blob/ba9b904b944c028033b4b4f584521436a34a5d57/lib/utils/general.mjs#L15-L23> whilst working on Roff.js: man:name.section - Bwana (macOS) man:name(section) - GNOME, KDE (Linux) x-man-doc://3/printf(3) - ManOpen (macOS) x-man-page://section/name - Terminal.app (macOS 10.3+) While I *strongly* advocate for the man:name(section) syntax (because it essentially dates right back to the earliest man pages), it would be remiss of me to ignore the other formats listed above. So the exact URL format *does* need to be configurable, preferably with a separate string for apropos(1) links, if supported (which would logically default to the `an*MR-scheme` string, or whatever we decide to name it. But...ugh! I don't remember this coming up before, but it could have. > I vaguely recall mentioning it some time ago, although you dismissed it in favour of enforcing a single, consistent URL syntax. > Also, what an ugly convention! > Yeah, agreed. Unfortunately, it dates back as far as October 2003, which means userland tooling has had at least two decades to leverage the syntax. > Please file a Savannah ticket for this. > Wilco.