Support hyperlinks

[vanniktech]

I'm using picnic to print out tables for a command line tool. On some tables, I'd like to have hyperlink support. Do you have any ideas / suggestion how to have them clickable by iTerm?

iTerms and other consoles have support for links:

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

Source

[JakeWharton]

Are you saying you want the measurement code to honor the fact that this will only render as 14 characters?

[vanniktech]

Ideally, having the measurement code honouring this as well as having a method that takes 2 args, hyperlink and displayed text. That way, I don't have to mess with the internals and it's guaranteed picnic will render the hyperlink correctly.

[JakeWharton]

Well the terminal renders it and we have no guarantee that it will work. The same is true of colors, multi-codepoint graphemes, etc. though. Picnic doesn't provide any factories for those things and wouldn't for this either. Ideally we would expose a way to configure what types of these exotic measurement utilities would be installed so consumers can do feature defection on their output location.