[screen-devel] [bug #50952] Feature request: Hyperlinks

[Egmont Koblinger]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50952>

                 Summary: Feature request: Hyperlinks
                 Project: GNU Screen
            Submitted by: egmont
            Submitted on: Thu 04 May 2017 09:16:57 PM UTC
                Category: Feature Request
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
           Work Required: None

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Details:

Recently two popular terminal emulators, GNOME Terminal and iTerm2 have
implemented a brand new feature: explicit hyperlinks.

Unlike the existing functionality of most terminal emulators of automatically
detecting URLs that appear onscreen, this time it's like hyperlinks on web
pages: the link target is explicitly specified by the OSC 8 escape sequence
and the visible text can be an arbitrary piece of text.

We believe this feature can provide a noticeable productivity boost for plenty
of users, and hence we're hoping to get some widespread recognition and
support, in which screen joining the game would be a key factor!

Ideally screen would make its presence transparent to the user and make sure
hyperlinks work exactly as if screen weren't in the game. This includes
autogenerating or mangling the "id" parameter in some trivial way, see the
docs linked below for why and how, but that's a piece of cake. The
tough^Wchallenging bits is probably coming up with a memory-efficient way of
storing a target URL for some of the character cells.

Please see https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda
for details about this feature.




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