Terminal hyperlinks

# For Sublime Text

This magic script adds links to the gcc or clang output:

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#!/bin/bash

# Without ANSI escape codes
# sed -e $'s#^\(.*\::digit:\+::digit:\+\)#\e]8;;subl:\/\/'`pwd`/$'\\1\a\\1\e]8;;\a#'

# With ANSI escape codes
sed -e $'s#^.*K\(.*\::digit:\+::digit:\+\)#\e]8;;subl:\/\/'`pwd`/$'\\1\a\\1\e]8;;\a#'

It will break if the ANSI escape codes formatting will be changed some day, but anyway. It also breaks formatting, too lazy to fix.

src/main.c:90:11 should be bold, but it’s not.

Then you have to pipe stderr from the compiler to it, e.g. in fish:

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make 2>| ./gcc-sublime-links

To keep colors from the compiler output, use -fdiagnostics-color=always flag with gcc or clang.

To open the links, you have to set up a custom subl protocol. No, I didn’t come up with a better solution. How to do this: xdg - Create a custom URL Protocol Handler.

Create a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications:

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Subl Scheme Handler
Exec=subl-opener.sh %u
StartupNotify=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/subl;

Then run:

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xdg-mime default subl-opener.desktop x-scheme-handler/subl

This adds an entry to ~/.config/mimeapps.list. And does something else maybe, because simply removing subl from that file and rebooting didn’t remove the protocol handler from the system. Meh.

The script (subl-opener.sh):

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

subl ${1#subl://}

# if [[ "$1" == "subl:"* ]]; then
    #ref=$(python -c "import sys, urllib as ul; print ul.unquote_plus(sys.argv[1])" "$ref") # If you want decoding
    # subl ${1#subl://}
# else
    # xdg-open "$1" # Just open with the default handler
# fi

Only one issue left - xdg-open is slow on my laptop. The subl command by itself is very fast. Sigh.

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________________________________________________________
Executed in  268.41 millis    fish           external
   usr time  157.60 millis    0.00 micros  157.60 millis
   sys time   82.13 millis  887.00 micros   81.25 millis

# kitty

If you use kitty, you don’t have to deal with xdg-open, just add this to open-actions.conf:

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protocol subl
action launch --type=background /usr/bin/subl $FILE_PATH

Kitty checks it first, so it doesn’t use xdg-open. The downside is that it’s also a bit slow. But faster than xdg-open!

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