bug#53234: closed (terminal URL capability not correctly detected (gnome-terminal 3.22.2).)

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and subject line Re: bug#53234: terminal URL capability not correctly detected 
(gnome-terminal 3.22.2).
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #53234,
regarding terminal URL capability not correctly detected (gnome-terminal 
3.22.2).
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> terminal URL capability not correctly detected (gnome-terminal 3.22.2).
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> Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:49:29 -0500
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> Hello,
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> I discovered that on a Debian 9 (stretch) box equipped with
> gnome-terminal 3.22.2, Guix would use terminal ANSI codes to represent
> hyperlinks in its output, which were not supported by GNOME terminal
> 3.22.2 which uses VTE 0.46.1 (it picked up support in 3.26 IIRC).
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> Thanks,
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> Maxim
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> Re: bug#53234: terminal URL capability not correctly detected (gnome-terminal 3.22.2).
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> Fri, 14 Jan 2022 23:54:28 -0500
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)
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> Hello!
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> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
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> > Hi,
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> > Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
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> >> I discovered that on a Debian 9 (stretch) box equipped with
> >> gnome-terminal 3.22.2, Guix would use terminal ANSI codes to represent
> >> hyperlinks in its output, which were not supported by GNOME terminal
> >> 3.22.2 which uses VTE 0.46.1 (it picked up support in 3.26 IIRC).
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> > I’m afraid there’s not much we can do: terminal emulators are supposed
> > to ignore ANSI sequences they don’t understand.
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> Ah, thanks for pointing that to me.  I had guessed we had to do some
> work to detect the terminal capability and conditionally output escapes
> or not, but I'm glad that's not how it works :-).
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> > My recollection is that there was a bug in libvte back then:
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> >   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/38940#6-lineno18
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> > That bug mentions a much older VTE though, so I wonder if it’s a newer
> > regression?
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> According to [0]:
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> > At this moment, terminals known to be buggy (OSC 8 resulting in
> > display corruption) are VTE versions up to 0.46.2 and 0.48.1, Windows
> > Terminal up to 0.9, Emacs's built-in terminal, and screen with 700+
> > character long URLs.
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> Which gnome-terminal shipped with Debian 9 uses.  Luckily, this release
> will be EOL in a few months (June 2022) [1], so the problem will
> disappear soon.
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> I'm closing this report, thank you for the explanations!
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> Maxim
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> [0]  https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda
> [1]  https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/
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