`vscode://settings/foo.bar` links do not work in chat window

[bwateratmsft]

Type: Bug

We have a need to refer to some settings in the chat responses. Ideally we could use the [Link Notation](vscode://settings/setting.id), but this does not work in the chat response--for whatever reason the link is just rendered as plain text instead of a link.

Other links (like web links) work just fine so I'm not sure why it's not working.

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.94.0-insider (be2747e47e127ec674148b78dd9556c6317d18bd, 2024-09-25T05:04:31.141Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631 Modes:

System Info

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canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: enabled
webnn: disabled_off| |Load (avg)|undefined| |Memory (System)|126.84GB (95.28GB free)| |Process Argv|--log ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-github-copilot=debug --crash-reporter-id a639fe75-6727-46d4-bc6c-acdb3cb6366a| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

Extensions (19)

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A/B Experiments

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[bwateratmsft]

/cc @isidorn

[isidorn]

Brandon wants our nice feature from release notes (rendering settings with a ⚙) also in the Chat view. Not sure if there is an underlying command they can trigger to open the setting, until we support rendering settings in chat (if we decide to do that)