bug#38940: \x1b]8; ; OSC character displayed on hyperlinks shown after calls to `guix describe` or `guix show` on mate-terminal 1.12.1 (Trisquel 8)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Jack Hill <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, 9 Jan 2020, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>>> 1. Instead of INSIDE_EMACS, the variable name NO_SUPPORT_HYPERLINK or
>>> other seems more meaningful. Maybe?
>>
>> Actually the goal was to remove ‘INSIDE_EMACS’ from there once a
>> widespread-enough Emacs version supports it, which could be within a
>> year.  And since other terminals are supposed to ignore it altogether, I
>> would rather not add a special environment variable.
>
> Which Emacs version support it? I'm using Emacs 26.3 from master, and
> see the escape sequences in eshell. They seem to be correctly ignored
> in M-x 
> shell.

Emacs 26.3 does not support it; all I know is that there’s a patch by
José Marchesi floating around.

Ludo’.