From 1dcc1b985d8ef3f69f759e85ebc9b527cb2bb5ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tieqiong Zhang <tz2600@columbia.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:09:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] docs: correct manual link

---
 news/doctab.rst                        | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/mainframe.py     |  6 ++----
 src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/pdfguiglobals.py |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 news/doctab.rst

diff --git a/news/doctab.rst b/news/doctab.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fec2f635
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/doctab.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+**Added:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Changed:**
+
+* Changed the removed local manual link to the online page.
+
+**Deprecated:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Removed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Fixed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Security:**
+
+* <news item>
diff --git a/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/mainframe.py b/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/mainframe.py
index efd2de05..e9cdc876 100644
--- a/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/mainframe.py
+++ b/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/mainframe.py
@@ -2522,10 +2522,8 @@ def onSaveCalc(self, event):
     def onDocumentation(self, event):
         """Show information about the documentation."""
         import webbrowser
-        from urllib.request import pathname2url
-
-        url = "file://" + pathname2url(docMainFile)
-        webbrowser.open(url)
+        
+        webbrowser.open(docMainFile)
         return
 
     # MISC INTERACTION ITEMS
diff --git a/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/pdfguiglobals.py b/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/pdfguiglobals.py
index cbfdc911..0aa35707 100644
--- a/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/pdfguiglobals.py
+++ b/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/pdfguiglobals.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 APPDATADIR = os.path.abspath(APPDATADIR)
 
 # Location of the HTML manual
-docMainFile = os.path.join(APPDATADIR, "doc/manual/pdfgui.html")
+docMainFile = "https://diffpy.github.io/diffpy.pdfgui/manual.html"
 
 del _upbasedir
 del _development_mode

From 6de982f55bc2b359ad2518740dfb3fc39bfe007b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "pre-commit-ci[bot]"
 <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:12:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit hooks

---
 src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/mainframe.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/mainframe.py b/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/mainframe.py
index e9cdc876..eeb02b5d 100644
--- a/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/mainframe.py
+++ b/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/mainframe.py
@@ -2522,7 +2522,7 @@ def onSaveCalc(self, event):
     def onDocumentation(self, event):
         """Show information about the documentation."""
         import webbrowser
-        
+
         webbrowser.open(docMainFile)
         return