Mypy command line options reference anchors #7784
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Also added references in
command_line.rst
. This is another suggestion for adding crossrefs to the docs. If you like this suggestion, I will add more PRs that replace verbatim option texts with references in chunks (same approach as with the stdlib crossrefs).Motivation
When reading the docs in the other PR I made earlier, I noticed the command line options are referenced throughout the docs. For that, a label is added above the command line paragraph which is linked by using the
ref
role. Although this does generate a valid link, e.g. in Import discovery:this doesn't look nice (the verbatim formatting is missing and the double hyphens are merged to an em dash) and the overall construct (adding an anchor and using
ref
for referencing) can be simplified by using the:option:
directive. When rendered, it will add an anchor automatically:The anchor can then be referenced by using the
:option:
role: