James Addison

> Attempted to add a unit test for this general case in #11950. I filed that as a seperate PR as I found some other minor bugs when working on...

@wlach could you try searching for `configuration` and check what kind of results you get? When I try it locally, the results seem less relevent than the results from the...

> @wlach could you try searching for `configuration` and check what kind of results you get? > > When I try it locally, the results seem less relevent than the...

@puck so if we have two sets of servers - `storage` and `compute`, for example, and each set contains a number of themed names, such as: ``` storage hosts: [diskly-001,...

> jayaddison, I was thinking the former, I have individual pages for each host (and for services to gather information about network ports and database names). For the server example...

@puck Ok; yep, got it - I wanted to make sure I had the correct understanding. To confirm: Currently it's not possible to link to an individual entry on the...

If that understanding is correct, I'd suggest retitling this to something like: > Feature request: add HTML anchors for named genindex entries created by the 'index' directive

To clarify: I was solely talking about enabling an HTML anchor (`id` attribute) on the `genindex.html` page, to address your use case. I'm not familiar enough with the index build...

Ah, OK. I don't think it'd be straightforward to achieve this in a multi-format manner - there are various programs that can be used to generate an index (see `mendex`,...

@puck after beginning a prototype of this locally, I've realized that even for HTML indexes, the format of the generated index entries (in `genindex.html`, and/or the split variant) is specific...