Edit Page Button

README.md

@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ mike deploy 0.3 'experimental' -t '0.3: Experimental development' --push
 ```
 
 Note the format for the title (-t). Keep a consistent naming structure. Also note that this version is aliased as `experimental`. 
+
+Also, edit the edit_uri in mkdocs.yml to have the new version as a branch name.
+
 ## Adding a New Submodule Repo
 ```commandline
 cd ~/repos/hello-robot.github.io/repos

mkdocs.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ site_description: "Hello Robot User Documentation"
 copyright: 'Copyright © 2020-2025 Hello Robot Inc'
 site_author: Hello Robot Inc
 use_directory_urls: True
-edit_uri: ''
+repo_url: https://github.com/hello-robot/hello-robot.github.io
+edit_uri: blob/0.3/docs
 
 theme:
  name: material
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ theme:
   - scheme: default
     primary: hello-robot-light
  features:
+   - content.action.edit
    - navigation.footer
 
 extra_css:
@@ -52,6 +54,9 @@ plugins:
         - glightbox-skip
   - include-markdown
 
+hooks:
+  - plugins/edit_links_across_submodules.py
+
 extra:
   version:
     provider: mike

plugins/edit_links_across_submodules.py

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+"""
+Replaces the edit_url for documentation included in other submodules.
+
+For example, the file robot_parameters.md [1] is included using the submodule located at repos/stretch_body
+
+When edit_uri is defined in the mkdocs.yml, the edit link for that page is
+https://github.com/hello-robot/hello-robot.github.io/blob/0.3/repos/stretch_body/docs/robot_parameters.md
+which does not link properly.
+
+The code contained in this module is inspired by the submodule-edit-uri plugin [2]
+and uses the mkdocs hooks [3] functionality.
+
+It reads the submodules from `.gitmodules` using GitPython during the configuration step,
+and then substitutes the proper url in the full output.
+
+The resulting link is now correct, linking to the full github blob url [1]
+
+[1] https://github.com/hello-robot/stretch_body/blob/master/docs/robot_parameters.md
+[2] https://github.com/sondregronas/mkdocs-submodule-edit-uri
+[3] https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#hooks
+
+
+"""
+from git import Repo
+
+
+def urljoin(*a):
+    s = ''
+    for sub in a:
+        if s and not s.endswith('/'):
+            s += '/'
+        s += sub
+    return s
+
+
+def on_config(config):
+    submod_d = {}
+    config['submodules'] = submod_d
+    repo = Repo('.')
+    for submod in repo.submodules:
+        url = submod.url
+        if url.endswith('.git'):
+            url = url[:-4]
+        submod_d[submod.name] = {
+            'path': submod.path,
+            'url': url,
+            'branch': submod.branch.name,
+        }
+
+
+def on_post_page(output, page, config):
+    # Assume that the edit uri is (blob|edit)/(branch_name)/docs/
+    edit_pieces = config['edit_uri'].split('/')
+    assert len(edit_pieces) == 4, config['edit_uri']
+    verb = edit_pieces[0]
+    branch = edit_pieces[1]
+
+    base = urljoin(config['repo_url'], verb, branch)
+
+    for name, submod in config['submodules'].items():
+        old_path = urljoin(base, submod['path'])
+        new_path = urljoin(submod['url'], verb, submod['branch'])
+        output = output.replace(old_path, new_path)
+    return output

pyproject.toml

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ description = "This repository generates the documentation hosted at [docs.hello
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
+    "GitPython>3.1",
     "jinja2==3.0.3",
     "mike>=2.1.3",
     "mkdocs>=1.6.1",