docs editUrl should accept a function to handle specific cases

[thesamet]

🐛 Bug Report

In v2 alpha 59, the "Edit this page" links for content docs are generated by joining the editUrl with the path setting. I am using a markdown preprocessor that generates files into the provided path, so I would like the edit links to point at the original files, not the generated ones.

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines on issues?

Y

To Reproduce

(Write your steps here:)

in presets:

  presets: [
    [
      '@docusaurus/preset-classic',
      {
        docs: {
          homePageId: 'intro',
          sidebarPath: require.resolve('./sidebars.js'),
          editUrl: 'https://waybackassets.bk21.net/20260414023053/https://github.com/scalapb/zio-grpc/edit/master/docs',
          path: '../zio-grpc-docs/target/mdoc'
        },

Expected behavior

The path setting doesn't play a part in the edit url. In other words, the editUrl will look like https://github.com/scalapb/zio-grpc/edit/master/docs/intro.md

Actual Behavior

The generated edit url contains the path to the generated file (which is not checked in):

https://github.com/scalapb/zio-grpc/edit/master/zio-grpc-docs/target/mdoc/intro.md

Your Environment

Repository: https://github.com/scalapb/zio-grpc
Markdown generator processes files in docs into zio-grpc-docs/target/mdoc.
To invoke it, install sbt, and type: sbt docs/mdoc. Then cd to website and do a yarn start.

The docs dire

[slorber]

Hi,

This may not be ideal but you can use the custom_edit_url frontmatter in the docs directly

[thesamet]

Thanks, I have a pretty small site, so this would be a reasonable workaround for the time being.

[slorber]

Great, let's close this for now and see if this becomes needed

[thesamet]

This would be an issue for some projects in the Scala community who use mdoc to preprocess and typecheck their markdown before passing it to Docusaurus. This breakage started when I explored updating to Docusaurus v2. Given that mdoc with Docusaurus v1 is already being used by a number of projects (see list in the previous link), I anticipate this issue to come up again. It would be nice to have it fixed so mdoc users would have some sort of a documented solution if they wish to try Docusaurus v2.

[slorber]

Thanks, didn't know about all this mdoc ecosystem still on v1 (reported here #3035).

Is it the only problem you had by migrating to v2?