[wp-docs] Source file links for theme/plugin functions

[Mika A Epstein]

The one issue that comes to mind is the line number changes, and as the codex is already a moving target, I'm not sure how much we want to add that over head....



On Nov 9, 2011, at 1:04 AM, Michael Beckwith <michael.d.beckwith at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering if it were feasible to link to the specific line where a function is declared when saying "foo function is located in wp-includes/bar.php". Instead of just linking to http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.2.1/wp-includes/bar.php, go to the actual destination, and then copy/paste in the link + line number.
> 
> For example from get_userdata():
> 
> Current source link = http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.2.1/wp-includes/pluggable.php
> Proposed source link = http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.2.1/wp-includes/pluggable.php#L94 
> 
> The #L94 anchor pulls them straight to the start of the comment block for the function.
> 
> Thoughts? Issues that I wasn't around for the first time someone thought this up?
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