making manual "latest" (stable) permalinks easy to copy?

[mxmilkiib]

the manual system that is RTD flavour Sphynx provides permalinks for manual pages using 'latest'

i.e.

https://manual.mixxx.org/latest/mixxx-control
https://manual.mixxx.org/latest/chapters/appendix/mixxx_controls
etc

and, as that is resolved to the version number, one can't just get a permalink for the always newest version/release on the page

which kinda goes against Cool URIs don't change, but could both addresses be valid for the same, i.e. latest doesn't change?

edit: no,cos it was made one way for a reason and changing this would go against that reason

can supplying the static (as far as static goes) url above be done on the manual page? as a link to copy (in the bottom left)

[ronso0]

I agree this would improve help a bit.
Currently, when posting manual links in the forum, I always manually replace /2.5/en/ with /latest/.

Something like "Latest" permallink in the bottom left of the sidebar would work for me, too.

[Swiftb0y]

Isn't the entire point of the fixed versioning that it ensures links don't get stale when the manual changes because they pin a specific version of the manual?

[mxmilkiib]

yes, for people who would like a manual link that becomes as stale as the release version they reference at that point in time

but not all people have that use case

[ronso0]

For me it's mostly about links to settings directory, controls list etc. (parts of the manual where content might change for future versions) in "timeless" support topics, eg. mapping modifictaions, settings issues etc.

[ronso0]

But tbh it's not that much of an issue that we need to invest dev time, I can as well use mini-script + hotley once I'm annoyed enough ; )