Bug 1780407 Comment 2 Edit History

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> In terms of UX, if someone already has a searchfox permalink with revision, it seems like it would be less work for them to just use that link directly?

Yeah, I think I agree here. You'd have to permalink and then cut the revision out. I wouldn't mind WONTFIXing this if a `/lastrev/` endpoint is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

> so my personal recommendation to people would be to use markdown for docs since firefox-source-docs can render markdown too

Note that because we use [myst](https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax/roles-and-directives.html#roles-an-in-line-extension-point) to provide markdown support, I believe this role should be usable from markdown as well (though haven't tested it myself).
> In terms of UX, if someone already has a searchfox permalink with revision, it seems like it would be less work for them to just use that link directly?

Yeah, I think I agree here. You'd have to permalink and then cut the revision out. I wouldn't mind WONTFIXing this if a `/lastrev/` endpoint is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

> so my personal recommendation to people would be to use markdown for docs since firefox-source-docs can render markdown too

Note that because we use [myst](https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax/roles-and-directives.html#roles-an-in-line-extension-point) to provide markdown support, I believe this role should be usable from markdown as well (though haven't tested it myself).

Edit: Tested and using:
```
{searchfox}`<path>`
```
works in firefox-source-doc's markdown as well!

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