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Design Clickable Links & Link preview feature/extension #574
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The marketing video for Terminal included a part where they show links previewing on hover. Is this functionality currently available?
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zadjii-msft commentedon May 8, 2019
Nope.
The marketing promo is more of a "what's to come" than a "what's available now". We appreciate your patience as we continue to work on this project :)
zadjii-msft commentedon May 8, 2019
Also for linking, #555
[-]How to check out the link preview functionality?[/-][+]Design link preview functionality[/+][-]Design link preview functionality[/-][+]Design "Link preview" functionality[/+]bitcrazed commentedon Jun 3, 2019
Joshua Joseph (@tackyunicorn) - the terminal video is aspirational - it's goal is to illustrate some of the key features we're working hard to ship in the Terminal. Some of the features illustrated are already in the Terminal. Most will ship in v1.0 by the end of 2019. Others may require more design, build & bake time, and will ship after v1.0.
Currently, the extensibility host and extensions like "Link Preview" are not yet designed or implemented, and are likely going to ship after v1.0. We want to spend the time & effort to make sure we build such crucial features "right" to minimize disruption later.
We're working on our future roadmap and will share with the community in the next couple of weeks.
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lypanov commentedon Dec 9, 2019
The second you have extension points I'm sure there is plenty of us out there with the skills. And we'll try very hard to make the time :) Count myself in at the very least.
bitcrazed commentedon Dec 9, 2019
Looking forward to that day :)
kvan commentedon Feb 15, 2020
When this does land, it would be great to be able to override the default application on a per profile basis. The ultimate dream would be to be able to use different chords to launch a URL in different browsers.
chrissinclair commentedon Feb 17, 2020
I imagine you are already aware, but there's some security risks that have caused similar problems in the past, particularly iTerm had issues doing DNS lookups when hovering over links to highlight them before clicking through. This was a fairly major issue for security analysts investigating live attacks, but also caused problems as it was sending DNS lookups for things that resembled urls (including sensitive info - e.g. passwords) in plaintext.
I'll not go as far as saying this behaviour is right or wrong, but definitely something to bear in mind when implementing this. For reference:
https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/6050
https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3688
https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/5303
https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/wikis/dnslookupissue
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9231
eblount commentedon Mar 4, 2020
I'm writing to respectfully request that this start small with eyes to the larger feature request. Getting http(s):// links to open in the default browser, when CTRL+clicking them, would be a great start! So many command line tools spit out web links that right now must be copied and pasted into a browser. If we only had that functionality, that could be enough for quite a while, in my opinion. Thank you for your consideration!
Dannymx commentedon May 27, 2020
I like the windows terminal, but I hate switching to a different terminal every time I want to click links. That's all.
pablodiazgutierrez commentedon Jun 11, 2020
Jumping on the bandwagon here to ask for this feature. Coming from macOS, I really miss a quick way to click URLs without having to go through the awkward copy/paste ritual.
bitcrazed commentedon Jun 12, 2020
Clickable links is on the roadmap for V2.0: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/terminal-v2-roadmap.md
vallamost commentedon Jun 12, 2020
On behalf of some the subsribers watching this for notable changes / updates; can we lock / mute this issue for now?
The additional asks, +1s, don't provide value and bring more pollution to our inboxes. If someone wants to contribute to this, they can make a CR and reference this issue. :)
Add support for autodetecting URLs and making hyperlinks (#7691)