Re: Feature request: ls --hyperlink

[Egmont Koblinger]

> Yes a bit lighter underlining is a small improvement,
> but it still would mean I wouldn't enable it by default.
>

Unless the main developer objects, I'll make the underline lighter as per
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786912. That would change it in
all hyperlink-enabled VTE-based emulators, which as the time we speak means
GNOME Terminal and Tilix. I haven't seen this feature working on iTerm2 yet
as I don't have access to a Mac, I don't know how it looks there.

For the rest, I really think we should wait until this feature gets widely
adopted and users start sending valuable feedback.

[...] but bad in the ls case since they don't add any info.
>

As long as "ls" is the only utility we care about, this could probably be
true. However, I imagine that _some_ of "stat", "grep", "find", "gcc" and
others might also eventlually add hyperlink support. And then it's not
feasible for users to keep in mind which ones do and which ones don't (or
just not configured right now to do, or omitted right now because the
output was piped through a filter). I'd much rather the terminal emulator
explicitly helps users here.

The bottom line is still: I'm not convinced that you are right here, just
as much as I'm not convinced that I am right either :-) I'd really push out
what we have now as-is and wait for users' feedback.

cheers,
e.