Re: info browser handles OSC 8 escape sequences poorly

Per Bothner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/11/26 08:15, Gavin Smith wrote:
> It is probably easy enough to discard them.  We could discard all OSC
> sequences.

Ideal would be to just pass these through to the terminal.
They are useful for creating clickable links. As an example, try 'ls --hyperlink'.
Most modern terminals support them, and older ones that don't will mostly harmlessly
ignore them. At least anything vaguely xterm/ecma-compatible. Emacs term mode
is a notable exception.
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