egmontkob

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

[ Update 2020-05-31: I won't be maintaining this page or responding to comments anymore (except for perhaps a few exceptional occasions). ]

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

sgmurphy

/**
 * Create a web friendly URL slug from a string.
 *
 * Requires XRegExp (http://xregexp.com) with unicode add-ons for UTF-8 support.
 *
 * Although supported, transliteration is discouraged because
 *     1) most web browsers support UTF-8 characters in URLs
 *     2) transliteration causes a loss of information
 *
 * @author Sean Murphy <sean@iamseanmurphy.com>