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Comment by Jean-Philipe | Hacker News Reader

Isn't this like any other hyperlink?

    <a href="http://evil.com">https://good.com</a>

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In a terminal I'd intuitively expect displayed text to not lie, especially if clicking it has consequences.

The use-cases provided seem to all just be more or less "it's convenient and looks good", which is the last thing I care about in a situation like that.

ok fair point

That's probably not a good intuition to have for a display rendered from ANSI escape sequences. Maybe not even from text rendered from unicode.

Though a good terminal should let you control whether you want to render the anchor text, show you the underlying link when you focus/hover/click it, etc.

with the web browser you see a preview of the link ! not with most terminal i have tested

Just noting that Ghostty shows a preview in the bottom corners just like a browser.

Alacritty shows a preview at the bottom by default (sounds similar to ghostty). Looked to me like WezTerm doesn't though.

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