Is there a linux based terminal app that allows links to be clickable?

Question

Is there a unix based terminal (extension or app) that does link resolution.

In particular when I see things like:

/home/sam/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in `perform_action_without_rescue'
/home/sam/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:17:in `ms'
/home/sam/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:17:in `ms'

I would like to be able to click on:

/home/sam/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb

To open the file.

Answer 1

try the browser "links". Its amazing what it does in a console window.

Answer 2

urxvt supports this.

Answer 3

gnome terminal (Ubuntu's default terminal app) has that feature.

Answer 4

I do not think any of the terminals available have this particular option of linkifying local filesystem links. For URLs, Konsole and GNOME Terminal work well.

Answer 5

You can sort-of accomplish what you want using xargs, gnome-open, and a simple script to filter the text so that the trailing detritus is removed. Basically, you could do something along the lines of:

compile | filtererrors | xargs gnome-open

Of course, you would have to write your own "filtererrors" program, but that shouldn't be too hard. Just read in each line. Find the first index of ':', and then print the line up to and excluding that index.