Add support for OSC 8 hyperlinks (HTML-like anchors)

[cwendling]

See also #175

[geo-stark]

See also #175 My patches are just backported from gnome made by the author of the comment #175

[lukefromdc]

I have no idea how to test this, would need to be able to do so without connection to unknown/unsafe sites

[geo-stark]

I have no idea how to test this, would need to be able to do so without connection to unknown/unsafe sites

Overall information about this feature: https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda some quick tests: 1) printf '\e]8;;https://ubuntu.com/\e\\Ubuntu 21.10\e]8;;\e\\n' 2) ls --hyperlink=always

[lukefromdc]

I don't really understand this, so will leave it for other team members to work on. I DO see a possible issue in your linked explanation though: autocompleting URLs could lead people to sites they don't ever want to connect to (e.g Facebook, Tiktok) or even to malware sites. Anything networked requires serious security, and coding it is out of my experience beyond blocking such sites on my machines.

[zhuyaliang]

@geo-stark Thank you for your work. I am very interested in this new function. I will review the code when I have enough time

[vkareh]

@lukefromdc

I don't really understand this, so will leave it for other team members to work on. I DO see a possible issue in your linked explanation though: autocompleting URLs could lead people to sites they don't ever want to connect to (e.g Facebook, Tiktok) or even to malware sites. Anything networked requires serious security, and coding it is out of my experience beyond blocking such sites on my machines.

This just affects rendering. What this does is expose functionality already available in VTE: hypertext linking. We already do the same thing with plain links, this just adds the hypertext portion.

[raveit65]

@vkareh @geo-stark What is the status of this?

[vkareh]

This looks good to me. I just did a quick review of the code and tested it and it still works as I remember. I'm fine if we merge this.

[raveit65]

@vkareh Any chance to approve it :)

[geo-stark]

@vkareh @geo-stark What is the status of this?

I responded to all comments regarding the patches. If community has other questions \ suggestions I'm ready to answer it.

[raveit65]

I have no idea how to test this, would need to be able to do so without connection to unknown/unsafe sites

Overall information about this feature: https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda some quick tests:

1. printf '\e]8;;[https://ubuntu.com/\e\\Ubuntu](https://ubuntu.com/%5Ce%5C%5CUbuntu) 21.10\e]8;;\e\\n'

2. ls --hyperlink=always

A better page for information seems to be here https://github.com/Alhadis/OSC8-Adoption