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Tabs and Link Recognition #164

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
First I would like to thank you for making Cygwin more user-friendly with 
your program.  I recently moved from my Linux box (which I love), but 
moving back to Windows has been a little bit alien since I'm so used to 
Linux's advanced features.  Your work has made moving back very enjoyable.

I'm sure your a little burned out from taking enhancement ideas from Mac 
users who want mintty to be more like "Terminal.app".  So how about this 
for a change in pace.

The GNOME Terminal app has a couple of good things that KTerminal also has.
1. Tabbed sessions (open multiple bash sessions in different tabs
2. The ability to recognize when an link has been inserted into the 
terminal.

I'm a big IRSSI fan. And my friends and I share links often in IRC.  When I 
right-click and select the menu over a string of text that begins with 
http: or https: and select something like "Open Link in Browser" I would 
like to go to that link in a new Internet Browser tab without copy and 
pasting the link.  Hovering over the link should underline the link.

I do not believe this is something the "screen" program is able to do, but 
more than likely, it is probably something the terminal program that 
contains the bash shell does.

The tabs idea might be a little bit more complicated as it will probably 
require a menubar. Or not.  Perhaps doing something like what Google Chrome 
does with their tabs would conserve desktop space. (Something I am 
definitely interested in with the limited screen space on my netbook.

It would be great to have these features.

Keep up the good work!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bushidohacks@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2010 at 6:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thanks for the kind words.

URL support is already there. Just hold down Ctrl while clicking on a URL to 
open it.
Or select it and choose Open from the context menu. This works for local files 
and
directories too (with some restrictions for relative paths).

I'm afraid tabs are beyond what I'm able and willing to do with mintty, though,
because unlike Gnome or KDE, the Win32 API provides negligible support for
implementing tabs. See issue 8.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 21 Feb 2010 at 6:57