Open OSC 8 terminal links the same way as plain URLs (#5388)

* Open OSC 8 terminal hyperlinks like plain URLs

Clicking a link a CLI printed with OSC 8 (gh, npm, ls --hyperlink)
showed xterm's "Do you want to navigate to" prompt and then opened a
bare Paseo window, while the same URL printed as plain text opened in
the system browser. The terminal runtime now gives xterm a link handler
that sends OSC 8 links to the same external opener as plain URLs.

Closes #4768

Co-authored-by: liujin0506 <liujin0506@users.noreply.github.com>

* Name the hyperlink and line writes in the terminal link test

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Co-authored-by: liujin0506 <liujin0506@users.noreply.github.com>
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2026-09-25 13:54:49 +02:00
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co-authored by liujin0506
parent 43a2a7969c
commit dc9799f6fc
2 changed files with 78 additions and 8 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
import { page } from "@vitest/browser/context";
import { page, userEvent } from "@vitest/browser/context";
import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
import type { TerminalInputModeState } from "@getpaseo/protocol/terminal-input-mode";
import { encodeTerminalOutput, TerminalEmulatorRuntime } from "./terminal-emulator-runtime";
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ interface MountedTerminal {
sizes: TerminalSize[];
terminalKeys: TerminalKeyRecord[];
inputModeChanges: TerminalInputModeState[];
openedUrls: string[];
}
const mountedTerminals: MountedTerminal[] = [];
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ function createTerminalHost(input: {
const inputs: string[] = [];
const terminalKeys: TerminalKeyRecord[] = [];
const inputModeChanges: TerminalInputModeState[] = [];
const openedUrls: string[] = [];
const runtime = new TerminalEmulatorRuntime();
runtime.setCallbacks({
callbacks: {
@@ -110,6 +112,9 @@ function createTerminalHost(input: {
onInputModeChange: (state) => {
inputModeChanges.push(state);
},
onOpenExternalUrl: (url) => {
openedUrls.push(url);
},
},
});
runtime.mount({
@@ -124,7 +129,16 @@ function createTerminalHost(input: {
},
});
const mounted = { host, root, runtime, inputs, sizes, terminalKeys, inputModeChanges };
const mounted = {
host,
root,
runtime,
inputs,
sizes,
terminalKeys,
inputModeChanges,
openedUrls,
};
mountedTerminals.push(mounted);
return mounted;
}
@@ -188,7 +202,43 @@ function dispatchTerminalKey(input: {
);
}
/** An OSC 8 hyperlink, the escape sequence CLIs such as gh and ls --hyperlink print. */
function hyperlink(input: { url: string; text: string }): string {
return `\x1b]8;;${input.url}\x1b\\${input.text}\x1b]8;;\x1b\\`;
}
function writeLines(mounted: MountedTerminal, lines: string[]): Promise<void> {
return new Promise((resolve) => {
mounted.runtime.write({
data: terminalOutput(lines.map((line) => `${line}\r\n`).join("")),
onCommitted: resolve,
});
});
}
async function clickTerminalLink(input: {
host: HTMLElement;
row: number;
col: number;
}): Promise<void> {
const terminal = getBrowserTerminal();
const screen = input.host.querySelector<HTMLElement>(".xterm-screen");
if (!screen) {
throw new Error("Expected xterm screen to be mounted");
}
const position = {
x: (input.col + 0.5) * (screen.clientWidth / terminal.cols),
y: (input.row + 0.5) * (screen.clientHeight / terminal.rows),
};
await userEvent.hover(screen, { position });
await waitFor({
predicate: () => input.host.querySelector(".xterm-cursor-pointer") !== null,
});
await userEvent.click(screen, { position });
}
afterEach(() => {
vi.restoreAllMocks();
for (const mounted of mountedTerminals.splice(0)) {
mounted.runtime.unmount();
mounted.root.remove();
@@ -526,4 +576,23 @@ describe("terminal emulator runtime in a real browser", () => {
expect(reset).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
});
it("opens OSC 8 hyperlinks the same way as plain-text URLs", async () => {
await page.viewport(900, 600);
const mounted = createTerminalHost({ width: 720, height: 360 });
const confirm = vi.spyOn(window, "confirm").mockReturnValue(false);
await waitFor({ predicate: () => mounted.sizes.length > 0 });
await writeLines(mounted, [
hyperlink({ url: "https://example.com/osc8", text: "example" }),
"https://example.com/plain",
]);
await clickTerminalLink({ host: mounted.host, row: 1, col: 4 });
await clickTerminalLink({ host: mounted.host, row: 0, col: 2 });
expect(mounted.openedUrls).toEqual(["https://example.com/plain", "https://example.com/osc8"]);
expect(confirm).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
});
});
@@ -434,6 +434,10 @@ export class TerminalEmulatorRuntime {
this.inputModeTracker.reset();
this.emitInputModeChange();
const openExternalLink = (event: MouseEvent, uri: string) => {
event.preventDefault();
void this.callbacks.onOpenExternalUrl?.(uri);
};
const terminal = new Terminal({
allowProposedApi: true,
convertEol: false,
@@ -441,6 +445,8 @@ export class TerminalEmulatorRuntime {
cursorStyle: "bar",
fontFamily: resolveTerminalFontFamily(input.fontFamily),
fontSize: resolveTerminalFontSize(input.fontSize),
// OSC 8 hyperlinks; without a handler xterm prompts and calls window.open().
linkHandler: { activate: openExternalLink },
lineHeight: 1.0,
macOptionIsMeta: true,
minimumContrastRatio: 1,
@@ -457,12 +463,7 @@ export class TerminalEmulatorRuntime {
let imageAddon: ImageAddon | null = null;
terminal.loadAddon(fitAddon);
terminal.loadAddon(unicode11Addon);
terminal.loadAddon(
new WebLinksAddon((event, uri) => {
event.preventDefault();
void this.callbacks.onOpenExternalUrl?.(uri);
}),
);
terminal.loadAddon(new WebLinksAddon(openExternalLink));
const localFileLinkProvider = terminal.registerLinkProvider(
createTerminalLocalFileLinkProvider(terminal, {
resolveLink: async (source) => {