#24 OSC 8 Hyperlink support

[Michael J. Ryan]

https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda

Would be cool to support this in SyncTERM (opening default protocol handler for the OS).

Would be very cool to add File Section support to the HTTP service object model in order to support this with the terminal in order to click through to an http/ftp download.

[Stephen James Hurd]

It's interesting, but I don't know of a simple cross-platform method to open a link in a browser...

[Michael J. Ryan]

It's not quite simple, but maybe worth a look...

https://github.com/sindresorhus/open

It's using xdg-open script, not sure about in Windows... In Mac there's the
open command. I know that SyncTerm also supports BSD, not sure there at
all. And I know 4 code paths isn't ideal. But thought the system itself
seemed cool. Especially in the context of download support.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020, 12:52 Stephen James Hurd deuce@users.sourceforge.net
wrote:

It's interesting, but I don't know of a simple cross-platform method to
open a link in a browser...

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• [feature-requests:#24]
  https://sourceforge.net/p/syncterm/feature-requests/24/ OSC 8 Hyperlink
  support*

Status: open
Milestone: NextMajor
Labels: feature
Created: Thu Jul 09, 2020 01:29 AM UTC by Michael J. Ryan
Last Updated: Thu Jul 09, 2020 01:29 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda

Would be cool to support this in SyncTERM (opening default protocol
handler for the OS).

Would be very cool to add File Section support to the HTTP service object
model in order to support this with the terminal in order to click through
to an http/ftp download.

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[Stephen James Hurd]

Looks like windows can use ShellOpen(), and xdg-open being a shell script should run on on Mac.

The only concern I have left is that more and more BBSs are capturing mouse actions. This would basically disable hyperlinks. While a keypress hyperlink scheme could be defined which would allow using an alternate method to achieve similar things, some BBSs use more than just a click action.

Anyway, still likely to wait until the expanded attribute stuff is added (ie: NextMajor), but it's certainly still something I'm considering.

[Stephen James Hurd]

Fixed in git... it will be in tonight's nightly build.