bug#38940: \x1b]8; ; OSC character displayed on hyperlinks shown after calls to `guix describe` or `guix show` on mate-terminal 1.12.1 (Trisquel 8)

[Calvin Heim]

On Mon, 2020-01-06 at 19:37 +0100, zimoun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for your report.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 07:49, Calvin Heim <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > When using mate-terminal version 1.12.1 (the default graphical terminal 
> > provided in Trisquel 8), Guix commands
> > that print hyperlinks to the terminal (such as `guix describe` and `guix 
> > show`)
> > print a mangled \x1b]8;; OSC character. I haven't tested the mate-terminal
> > package provided by Guix though, so this bug may only be visible to 
> > Trisquel users
> > of the Guix package manager relying on their host distribution's default 
> > terminal soon
> > after installing Guix.
> I have tested with "guix environment --ad-hoc mater-terminal" on
> foreign distro (Debian) and I do not see an issue.
> 
> So it probably comes from the Trisquel default configuration.
> 
I concur.
> 
> > 
> > On a related note, the procedure supports-hyperlinks in module (guix ui) 
> > checks the
> > environment variable INSIDE_EMACS to prevent hyperlink mangling when using 
> > Emacs.
> > Perhaps this procedure could be edited to solve this bug.
> Does "INSIDE_EMACS=1 guix describe" fix the issue?
> 

Yes.
>  
> 
> All the best,
> simon