Detect links / URLs, open on ctrl+click

[alexsapps]

The normal SSH/hterm/shell app for Chrome detects URLs and underlines them on hover and opens the link on ctrl+click. I'd like this for mosh-chrome too.

[rpwoodbu]

I am surprised to learn that the released Mosh for Chrome has such an old hterm that this feature isn't available! I really need to do a release.

In the interim, you can install "Mosh for Chrome (dev)" from the Chrome Web Store and get the ctrl+click functionality. (Although, I have not seen underlines... is that an option in hterm?)

[vapier]

it's news to me that hterm automatically underlines links :)

maybe you're thinking of OSC-8 instead ?

ctrl+click does work in the latest hterm though.

[alexsapps]

Sorry I was wrong about automatic underlining. My usual SSH host was down at the time of writing so I just went off the best of my (wrong) memory.

[gordol]

fwiw, i'm running this on latest hterm, and URLs are not clickable...

perhaps there is some other flag to pass to make that possible.

[vapier]

it's hard to guess at what you're trying to do exactly. did you hold Ctrl down before clicking?

[gordol]

did you hold Ctrl down before clicking

yep.

i figured out the problem... it works if i'm not in tmux, otherwise, tmux seems to be capturing the mouse input and it never triggers, or something... maybe it's the ctrl modifier key. either way, ctrl+click on latest hterm does indeed work, in a plain shell

[vapier]

sounds like you turned on tmux's mouse mode

[gordol]

mouse mode or not, it doesn't work within tmux, btw. i know how to turn mouse mode on and off, lol

[vapier]

my point is, if you've turned on mouse mode, then hterm should not be hijacking ctrl+mouse for its own use. your clicks (including key modifiers) are sent to the remote side so it can interpret things.

if you google for 'tmux mouse mode', you'll find some docs to control it.

[gordol]

... I literally just said I know about mouse mode in tmux. what's your point? lol

[gordol]

this works if you just use latest libapps. see my fork here for an example: gordol@75b0057

[rpwoodbu]

@gordol, be sure you're running "Mosh (dev)" from the Chrome Web Store. I mentioned in my first comment that this isn't in the released version (non-dev). I hope to do a release soon.

[gordol]

I'm running my own fork that's more updated than the dev build in the app store.

[rpwoodbu]

@gordol Sure, but I think you'll find this works at HEAD, which is pushed to "Mosh (dev)". (Yes, I know, I need to do a stable release...)

Also, I forgot to mention that I use tmux 100% of the time, and don't have troubles clicking links. I don't have mouse mode enabled.