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Document setting for source code links
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Fix path for Edit URLs
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Expand Up @@ -221,8 +221,26 @@ Miscellaneous options
File-wide metadata
==================

The following options can be used as :ref:`file-wide metadata
<sphinx:metadata>`:
The following features are confugured per file in :ref:`file-wide metadata
<sphinx:metadata>`, but they could also be set for all files using
:ref:`html_context <spinx:html_context>` setting.

Enable "Edit on ..." links
--------------------------

To enable "Edit on GitHub" link, you can add ``github_url`` option to the
metadata of specific page, or use ``html_context`` to make this option set
for all pages.

For example:

.. code:: python

html_context = {
'github_url': 'https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme'
}

Note that such URLs are static.

.. confval:: github_url

Expand All @@ -236,6 +254,19 @@ The following options can be used as :ref:`file-wide metadata

Force the :guilabel:`Edit on GitLab` button to use the configured URL.

To generate dynamic URLs, there exists a set of other options.

.. code:: python

html_context = {
'display_github': True,
# 'github_host': 'github.com',
'github_user': 'readthedocs',
'github_repo': 'sphinx_rtd_theme',
'github_version': 'master/docs/'
}


Other configuration
===================

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