On 2022-01-07, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 11:41:45AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:01:05AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: >> > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are > >> In a terminal: left click might not do anything but right click will bring >> up a menu for me which allows me to open the link. >> >> So: man apt, for example, has a URL for bugs at the bottom: if I right click >> that underlined link, I get the option to open it / copy it or whatever. > > The behavior is highly specific to the terminal emulator in question. > We can't guess how Gene's terminal is behaving (or has the capability > of behaving) without knowing which one it is. >
It would seem in gnome-terminal (sorry) hyperlinks are clickable. For xterm, I guess there are several hoops to jump through: https://pbrisbin.com/posts/selecting-urls-via-keyboard-in-xterm/ I'd rather just cut and paste the URI in the always-open browser, but then again I've never had that old hacker spirit.
