tmux looks for an Hls extension capability to do this: Hls=\E]8;%?%p1%l%tid=%p1%s%;;%p2%s\E\\
As far as security, tmux doesn't do anything with the links itself, so if you think it is a bad idea without tmux, it is still a bad idea with it. On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 at 09:22, G. Branden Robinson < g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > At 2023-08-23T03:24:51-0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 01:12:04PM -0400, Dusty Mabe wrote: > > > I'm wondering if anyone has ever requested OSC8 hyperlink support > > > [1] in ncurses > > > > This is probably the first mention on this list. > > > > I don't see any use in my working on this, because: > > > > a) it opens up a new set of security vulnerabilities > > There was a humdinger of an argument about this on Egmont Koblinger's > Gist about this feature. > > https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda > > I offer that link mainly for the edification of bystanders; I trust > you've already read and considered that material. > > > (which if you read this list, and investigate, you'll notice that I > > do _all_ of the work to mitigate those issues). > > Fair. > > > b) doing this as you might expect will interfere with performance for > > _all_ applications. > > Maybe some clever volunteer can think of an unexpected implementation > that doesn't. > > > The developer working on tmux is working through the latter, and > > ignoring the former. Perhaps in a few years, after both aspects are > > resolved, he might want to adapt some of that to ncurses. > > In the meantime it would be helpful if you could add a terminfo > capability so that applications using terminfo but not curses per se can > pay their money and take their chances, as with groff's grotty(1), for > which Lennart Jablonka is preparing patches to make the program a > terminfo application (at long last, one might say). > > We'd like to be able to ask terminfo if the terminal description > supports OSC 8, but we can't. > > Meanwhile, my crystal ball says I'll be using gnome-terminal to check > grotty's OSC 8 support for the foreseeable future--but only on occasion, > as xterm is my daily driver and I have no plans to change that. > > Regards, > Branden >
