Hyperlinks are not rendered correctly

[patrickelectric]

https://anvilproject.org/guides/content/creating-links

[segfaultsourcery]

I'm interested in this as well. I would love for there to be buttons or links.

[exor2008]

@patrickelectric @segfaultsourcery @
Any ideas, what exactly the links should look like?
If this is a link to another md file, it can be clickable.
But what if it's an actual http link?
Something like Google search (https://google.com/)?

[patrickelectric]

That's a great question, I believe that it depends. It would be nice to have a configuration for such thing. I would believe that the showing the link is the best way for a presentation, but that should be up to who is presenting. If we do normal hyperlink without showing the link by default, the user would be free to add the link in the text. If we do otherwise, it'll not be possible for the user to remove it. So, if there will not be a setting for such behavior, I would vote for not having it.

[segfaultsourcery]

Would it be possible to implement a special class of link that somehow signals back what was clicked? What I mean by that is that I think it would be immensely useful if we could define a button in markdown, for example like this: [I am a button](button://this-is-a-signal) If the button is clicked, the signal (`this-is-a-signal`) is emitted somewhere (perhaps a channel) where the developer can handle it.

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[patrickelectric]

Would it be possible to implement a special class of link that somehow signals back what was clicked? What I mean by that is that I think it would be immensely useful if we could define a button in markdown, for example like this: I am a button If the button is clicked, the signal (this-is-a-signal) is emitted somewhere (perhaps a channel) where the developer can handle it.
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There is a terminal protocol just for that

[exor2008]

I see it this way:

let mut skin = MadSkin::default();
skin.link.style = Link::TextAndLink // or Link::Text or Link::Link

where
Link::TextAndLink will display

Google search (https://google.com/)

Link::Text will display

Google search

Link::Link will display

https://google.com/

Click on it will generate event, so developer can handle it. Like, display another md file or just ignore it if it was random http link.

[exor2008]

@Canop what do you think?

[Canop]

@exor2008 There are two separate concerns here:

• web-like rendering of hyperlinks, making them clickable using the almost standard terminal protocol
• buttons with some kind of callback system

I'd rather keep the present issue focused on the expected link rendering, that is [a](b) would just display a but trigger a call to b URI using standard platform opener.

The reasons I didn't initially did it were:

• not all terminals support it
• in my use cases, I prefer to display the URL and almost all terminals supports clicks on links so instead of [a](b) you can put b.

The reason I don't do it now is just that I don't have time enough at the moment.

[exor2008]

@Canop sure, it's a great job done already.
Do you accept pull requests?
Looks like, minimad should be changed first here.

[Canop]

Do you accept pull requests?

I do accept a lot of them, but I'm cautious. See https://dystroy.org/blog/contributing/

Looks like, minimad should be changed first here.

Exact

[clifinger]

Most (but not all) terminal emulators support it.

You can try it by typing in your terminal:
printf '\e]8;;http://example.com\e\\This is a link\e]8;;\e\n'

The problem is that we can't detect if the terminal emulator support hyperlinks.