[konsole] [Bug 409994] New: better (link) support for TUI applications

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409994

            Bug ID: 409994
           Summary: better (link) support for TUI applications
           Product: konsole
           Version: 18.04.0
          Platform: Debian unstable
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: konsole-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: ossi at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

applications based on ncurses, slang, or other text ui toolkits take control of
newlines themselves, i.e., they hard-wrap text. this has the effect that links
which span multiple lines are not recognized as such.

my suggestion would be to re-join lines heuristically: if the "word" fills the
whole line and the next line starts with another word character, join the two -
this is relatively safe and handles properly wrapped flowed text as drawn by a
mailer like mutt.


while the mechanism is different, this obviously also affects selecting/copying
from the terminal.

there is another incarnation of the latter problem: an ssh public key copied
from, say, mcview will contain newlines, which is often a nuisance. the problem
here is that the text is _not_ properly flowed, but hard-wrapped, and contains
multiple words to start with, so the above heuristic would not work.

the distorted copying is less troublesome, as the "paste destination" typically
offers the possibility to re-join the lines (or will even do it automatically),
so i'm mostly mentioning it only for context, but you may still want to create
a spin-off task for it.

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