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Feature Request: Escape code for HTML-like anchor tags.

  • iTerm2 version: Build 3.0.8
  • OS version: Yosemite 10.10.5

I'd love to be able to accomplish the same sort of thing that I can with this html:

    Bug <a href="http://example.com/1234">1234</a>

I don't recall ever seeing anything like this in vt escape codes (even extensions to them), but I'd think it would work something like this: ESC ] 1337 ; href = SOME_URL ^G SOME_TEXT ESC ] 1337; endhref ^G

e.g.

    Bug ^[]1337;href=http://example.com/1234^G1234^[]1337;endhref

This would be displayed as Bug 1234 but with the 1234 underlined. (Or I guess styling can be done separately for the the href text.) The right click menu would show the actual destination; the command click would open it like any other semantic history.

This would help me write a tool that greps logs because it could linkify things it found without making the log line really long containing hrefs. Even a shortened url contains a lot more chars than a bug number.

Thoughts?