Extra trailing > character in URL

[wdscxsj]

For example, the URL [https://certbot.eff.org/](https://certbot.eff.org/) is correctly rendered as:

But on mouse hover, an extra > character is appended to the URL:

And on click the browser tries to open https://certbot.eff.org/> and fails.

My environment: patat 0.8.4.3 64-bit on Ubuntu 18.04.

[jaspervdj]

Hi @wdscxsj, this is not really patat's doing. There is no way to output links in terminal output, so patat just outputs <https://certbot.eff.org/> and then the terminal emulator (e.g. gnome-terminal) highlights it and makes it clickable.

It is pretty common to use <> around URLs as this was part of the original markdown specification. However, if this breaks many terminal emulators, we can consider dropping these. Can you let us know which terminal emulator and/or highlighter you are using?

[wdscxsj]

Thanks for the explanation! I never thought it was the terminal. The issue happened when I used VSCode's Remote feature to ssh into a Ubuntu 18.04 from Windows 10, and then run patat inside VSCode's (remote bash) terminal. No particular highlighter is configured other than a Light theme for VSCode.

A minimal example:

See [https://certbot.eff.org/](https://certbot.eff.org/) for example.

See [https://certbot.eff.org/](https://certbot.eff.org/).

On my laptop, the reported issue happens to the first line, but not to the second.

By the way, neither Windows cmd.exe nor ConEmu has this problem. Can we decide it's a bug of VSCode?

[jaspervdj]

Yes, I think it that case it would be a bug in the VSCode URL highlighter. You should also be able to reproduce this without patat by simply running:

echo '<https://certbot.eff.org/>'

[wdscxsj]

You should also be able to reproduce this without patat by simply running:

echo '<https://certbot.eff.org/>'

Confirmed. Thank you very much! I can close this one now.

Update: This issue is tracked here.