Test: Hyperlink terminal sequences

[Tyriar]

Refs: #39278

• macOS @sandy081
• windows @TylerLeonhardt

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The terminal now supports printing hyperlinks (text that points to a url) in the terminal. The full behavior is described at https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda (we do not support the id attribute though).

Essentially you echo the following:

\x1b]8;; <url> \x1b\ <label> \x1b]8;;\x1b\

Here's an example of how to write one in bash:

printf '\e]8;id=abc;http://example.com/\e\\This is a link中国\e]8;;\e\\\n'

There are some more examples here:

https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/blob/37c722d556e4b7e15ef55b63da41a93f87ddd43c/demo/client.ts#L876-L894

It's fine to test either bash or zsh on macOS.

[TylerLeonhardt]

It looks like this only works in Win11. I had @Tyriar run commands for me on his machine.... but I also verified this worked on macOS as well.

Oh also, PowerShell has a neat little feature:

PS > $PSStyle.FormatHyperlink("Hi friends!", "https://github.com/")

[autoantwort]

Why does this only works on Windows 11?

[Tyriar]

@autoantwort it needs support in conpty which is a feature that's shipped with Windows

[autoantwort]

Hm ok. Because Windows Terminal also supports hyperlinks on Windows 10

[Tyriar]

@autoantwort Windows Terminal builds and ships conpty as part of their application, this is something we've considered but it seems too expensive for us to do currently.