Please allow overriding use_directory_urls option via a command line flag

[mitya57]

Dear mkdocs developers,

Some projects have use_directory_urls: true in their mkdocs.yml files, which creates some problems when browsing the documentation locally.

I am Debian packager, and we often package documentation to make it easier for developers to browse it locally. So it would be nice to have a --use-directory-urls=false flag (or similar) to override that setting, so that I don’t have to patch mkdocs.yml.

[waylan]

That seems like a reasonable reason for adding that option. However, it's not going to be high on my priority list, so a PR is more likely to get the change made sooner than later.

[laoshaw]

use-directory-urls: false does not work in mkdocs.yml while using 1.0.4, also 'mkdocs build --use-directory-urls=false' reports 'no such option', when can we have 'use-directory-urls=false'? my markdown files are generated locally and I would like to browse them without a http server sometimes.

[waylan]

use-directory-urls: false does not work in mkdocs.yml while using 1.0.4

Please report this as a separate issue.

[mitya57]

@laoshaw In mkdocs.yml it should be use_directory_urls, with underscores and not with hyphens.