Re: info browser handles OSC 8 escape sequences poorly

On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 09:26:46AM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> On 1/11/26 08:15, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > It is probably easy enough to discard them.  We could discard all OSC
> > sequences.

I've made a commit to strip them out (commit 38c44fd7d7915e, today's date).

> Ideal would be to just pass these through to the terminal.
> They are useful for creating clickable links. As an example, try 'ls --hyperlink'.

I don't think I have any terminal program installed which would read these links.

> 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.

That could be useful for other displays of URLs in the Info browser, as well.
However, we'd have to make sure it works ok with the display code.