This document tracks in-the-wild support for terminal hyperlinks (a.k.a., OSC 8), primarily amongst terminal emulators.
To determine if your terminal emulator supports hyperlinks, run the following command:
printf '\033]8;;http://example.com\033\\This is a link\033]8;;\033\\\n'In an OSC 8-compatible terminal, you should see something to the effect of:
- Alacritty since v0.11 (2022-10-13)
- DomTerm since 1.0.2 (2018-05-09)
foot: Since 1.7.0 (2021-03-20)- hterm since 1.76 (2018-06-21)
- Hyper since Oct 2019
- iTerm2 3.1
- Kitty since v0.19: issue
- Konsole since Jul 2020
- mintty since 2.9.7 (2019-03-15)
- Terminology in Git since 2018-10-14, probably will be released in version 1.3
- Ultimate++ terminal widget since Nov 2019
- VTE-based: since 0.501
- GNOME Terminal 3.26
- Guake 3.2.1
- ROXTerm 3.5.1
- Terminator2: since v2.0 (2020-10-07)
- Tilix 1.5.8
- xfce4-terminal Staged for v1.2 release on 2022-11-07
- WezTerm since early 2018
- Windows Terminal since v1.4.3141.0 (2020-11-12)
- xterm.js since 5.0.0 (2022-09-16)
- TermySequence
tmux: Staged for release on 2022-06-303tmux-hyperlink: Fork oftmuxwith out-of-the-box support
- Neovim: latest version supports rendering texts with hyperlinks (since this PR).
- Emacs: Since 28.1 (2022-04-04)
- GCC: Since version 10, for diagnostic messages to point to the documentation.
- Delta: Since v0.4 (2020-08-04), for linking to files and GitHub commits
- groff: Since 1.23.0 (2023-07-05), for links in
roffdocuments, including man pages. less -R: since v566 (2020-11-25)ls --hyperlink[=always/auto/never]: sincecoreutilsv8.28 (2017-09-02).lsd --hyperlink[=always/auto/never]: since lsd 0.22 (2022-04).- Matterhorn chat client: Since version 40400.0.0.
- mdcat (markdown cat): Since version 0.5.0.
- moar (pager,
lessreplacement): Since version v1.14.0 (2023-05-03) - Symfony: Since version 4.3.
- systemd: Since version 239.
- wget2: Since Nov 2019
ansi_upANSI code-to-HTML conversion library: Since v4.0.3 (2019-02-12)brickhigh-level terminal UI library: Since October 2017.- Rich rich-text formatting library: Since May 2020.
vtymedium-level terminal UI library: Since October 2017.
- ConEmu
VTE-based:
Footnotes
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Use VTE 0.50.4, 0.52.2, or newer to avoid a rare crash. ↩
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Refers to the "Terminator" program written in Python for Linux, based on GTK+. Not to be confused with the one written in Java bearing the same name. ↩
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Requires user to add
set -ga terminal-features "*:hyperlinks"to their tmux config ↩