Hyperlinks in Terminal Emulators

kristopolous

tl;dr here's coming from markdown LINK = ["\033]8;;", "\033]8;;\033\\"] re.sub(r"\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^\)]+)\)", process_links, line) def process_links(match): description = match.group(1) url = match.group(2) return f'{LINK[0]}{url}\033\\{UNDERLINE[0]}{description}{UNDERLINE[1]}{LINK[1]}'

tombert

On my second day when I worked at Reddit, I learned by accident that I do not want my terminal to have clickable links. I was working on image compression, and we had a script where we would render a column with the original image link, and a column with the new compressed image, and a column with the relative percentage of size to PNG, and there would be like 200 rows at a time. I managed to somehow accidentally click on a link in iTerm, my browser opened, and I discovered what "sounding" [1] is, on a company computer, in the company office. I saw it, whispered "oh fuck!", and quickly killed my browser. I don't think anyone saw me but I was extremely worried that I was going to get fired on my second day of work for viewing porn on a company computer in front of everyone, even though it was a legitimate accident. So now I don't want my links to be clickable. If there's a link I'll highlight it and paste it into Firefox manually. [1] If you do not know what sounding is, I do not recommend you look it up, just know that it's a weird sex thing that I wish I didn't know about and cannot unsee.