Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Agreed. If you use: > > > .. toctree:: > :maxdepth: 1 > :glob: > > * > > There won't be the need of manually updating the TOC tree. > > That's said, I guess very few documents currently use grub: > $ git grep :glob: Documentation/|wc -l > 7 > > Also, it has some drawbacks, as you can't control anymore the order > where the docs will be placed. So, if this is important, you may need > to do something different, or maybe use things like (untested): So this is a different level of TOC than what was originally being discussed ... but now that we're here, I have to say that I am not a fan of the use of wildcard toctrees in this way. The index.rst files easily become unstructured dumping grounds as it is; wildcards just make that even worse. IMO, every addition to a toctree should be considered with regard to position, and the organization of the containing file in general. But then, I'm known to be an optimist. jon
