We currently prefer the 'tty: link' style for representing URIs
in man pages, as this falls back to _not_ displaying the URI
where not supported, whereas the .UR macro generally does fall back
to showing the URI, which has these disadvantages:
- They're long, redundant, and interfere when reading text
- With wrapping enabled with \: in the URI, it can become unclickable
- Without wrapping enabled it interferes in adjacent text justification
Note with groff >= 1.24 (March 2026), the .UR macro results
in OSC 8 hyperlinks being used, and thus the awkward URI is not
displayed.
* man/viewman: Configure groff 1.23 to display .UR macros
with OSC 8 hyperlinks.
See: https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2026-05/msg00080.html
Pádraig Brady
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