Description
Proposal
Add a nightly flag -Zterminal-urls=y|on|yes|n|off|no|auto that configures enabling embedded links in terminal output. Start using this configuration only in nightly, defaulted to off. The specifics of auto will be determined through experimentation.
This will allow us to customize the printed output with hyperlinks to relevant documentation, or to local files (by using file://, but leveraging that can be fraught for people using ssh).
An example of what this would look like in practice can be seen in this video:
Screen.Recording.2023-02-08.at.11.44.15.AM.mov
rust-lang/rust#107838 shows what the code changes required would be.
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Process
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- File an issue describing the proposal.
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Comments
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