[JJLiebig]

This restores opening links with your terminal's usual shortcut while keeping Herdr's mouse controls working. #5064 stopped the terminal from opening all explicit hyperlinks when mouse capture was enabled; that was too broad.

With mouse capture enabled (the default):

Link you see	What happens
A normal website link, with no matching plugin	Your terminal opens it using its usual shortcut.
A vscode:// link, with no matching plugin	Your terminal opens your local VS Code, even over SSH.
An Obsidian link matched by an enabled, available plugin	Herdr reserves that link and invokes the existing plugin action when the terminal forwards Ctrl-click.
A link matched only by a disabled plugin	Your terminal handles it normally.
A long plain-text http:// or https:// URL that wraps across pane rows	Clicking any visible part opens the full URL, unless an enabled, available plugin claims it.
A labeled hyperlink that wraps across pane rows	Every part keeps the original link destination.

Tabs, menus, selection, and split resizing keep working throughout. There are no new settings or plugin API changes.

Changing mouse capture also updates every connected machine, so switching connections keeps plugin links working. Connections that finish opening after a setting change receive the latest preference.

Web links handled by plugins keep their Ctrl-hover underline, including wrapped labels and the visible portion in a clipped pane.

Plain-text URLs follow actual terminal auto-wraps. Spaces and line breaks inserted by the application end the URL. Destinations stay correct when the URL changes, including edits to a later wrapped row or an offscreen part.

Plugin-owned links still need a click that the terminal forwards to Herdr. A failed plugin action shows an error and stops. Other links use the terminal's normal shortcuts; for example, the macOS Ghostty tester below used Shift+Command-click. Windows Terminal can also intercept URLs it detects in visible text.

Both client and server need the updated build. A client connected to an older server keeps the previous capture behavior until that server is updated and restarted.

Community feedback and testing

Thanks to everyone in #5272 for the excellent feedback and for testing the PR artifacts. Their reports helped confirm the restored behavior and identify the missing wrapped plain-text case.

• macOS: tlshaheen tested Ghostty 1.3.1 on macOS 26.7.1 over SSH to Linux. Shift+Command-click opened one-row and wrapped labeled hyperlinks, while tab clicks and split dragging worked. The truncated plain-text URL they reported prompted the follow-up in this PR.
• Windows: kehwar tested Windows Terminal 1.24 on Windows 11 over SSH to Linux. Web, VS Code, WinSCP, and wrapped links opened locally; tab and pane controls and split resizing also worked.

These community tests used artifact 87c4378c. The wrapped plain-text follow-up is in ff310f9a, has automated regression coverage, and is awaiting community retesting. Fresh artifacts for all five platforms will be generated once CI and bot reviews are clear.

Validation

• just check: 3,493 Rust tests passed, 13 existing skips. Formatting, lint, build, maintenance, architecture, integration-asset, and documentation checks passed on the current master base.
• Hosted Linux, macOS, and Windows checks passed on ff310f9a, along with Windows ConPTY packaging, Nix, and the distribution contract.
• CodeRabbit and Greptile completed review of ff310f9a with no remaining actionable findings. Both review threads from the follow-up are resolved. Akbash's latest approval covers the earlier c284fbd8.
• The new regression failed before the fix. It checks the links actually sent to the outer terminal, including a wrapped URL appearing, its final row changing after plugin interception, and the URL being removed.
• Other coverage includes Unicode and punctuation, resizing, real line breaks, explicit hyperlink priority, offscreen ends and partially visible schemes, differently clipped views, and a viewport starting inside a label before a URL. Existing plugin and mixed-version client/server tests remain covered.
• A config-reload regression failed before the connection-setting fix. It covers enabling and disabling capture across active and inactive connections, switching between them, and keeping healthy connections working when another connection fails. The inactive-connection message test also checks that local config reload notices still arrive while viewing another machine.
• Hover regressions failed before the fix. They check plugin-reserved labels, wrapped wide characters and wrap padding, adjacent links and gaps, the existing work bound, and underlining in a smaller clipped pane.
• just bench-render-scale passed with 1 and 15 panes, including incremental updates for ordinary wrapped text. Repeated alternating base/change timings varied substantially with machine load: one-pane medians ranged 0.88–1.55 ms before versus 0.82–1.54 ms after; 15-pane medians ranged 0.90–1.54 ms versus 0.89–1.56 ms. These results do not support a precise overhead claim. Cell reads are batched, and each candidate token is formatted once.
• Independent scope and correctness review completed; the candidate-scanning issue it found was corrected and covered by a regression.

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Related discussion: #5347

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The app refreshes runnable plugin link patterns and reserves matching hyperlinks during captured shell rendering. Selective hyperlink support is negotiated per endpoint. The terminal detects wrapped HTTP(S) text links and tracks metadata changes. Client reloads propagate mouse-capture settings to all endpoints. Tests and documentation cover endpoint states, wrapped links, refresh ordering, surface deltas, and updated link behavior in English, Japanese, and Chinese.

Possibly related issues

• herdrdev/herdr#5272: Restores native labeled hyperlinks during mouse capture while reserving only plugin-owned links.

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Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to ff310

The change restores native hyperlink handling while keeping plugin-owned links reserved. The earlier concern that the background refresh could release installation pins held by the server is not supported by the lease implementation. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains in the reviewed changes.

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Summary

Restores terminal-native links unless an enabled, available plugin claims them while mouse capture is on.

• Native links stay clickable unless an enabled plugin claims them.
• Plain-text URLs keep their full destination across terminal wraps.
• Mouse-capture changes reach every connected machine.

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flowchart TD
  A[Pane links] --> B{Mouse capture on and available plugin matches?}
  B -->|No| C[Keep native link targets]
  C --> D[Terminal opens the destination locally]
  B -->|Yes| E[Remove native click targets]
  E --> F[Forwarded Ctrl-click invokes the plugin]
  E --> G[Server resolves visible label regions]
  G --> H[Client clips and underlines the label]

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Avoid taking installation leases in the background refresh.

The worker creates a fresh Leases map and calls plugin_installations::load, which can open and shared-lock each managed installation before dropping the handles. This does not release App::plugin_installation_leases, but it adds unnecessary lease I/O on every refresh.

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Reviewed CodeRabbit's lease suggestion. Keeping the temporary installation leases: plugin_installations::load acquires them while holding the registry lock, so a concurrent plugin update and cleanup cannot delete the selected checkout before the worker finishes reading its manifest. Reading the registry directly would leave that race open. The lease acquisition and manifest reads stay in the background worker, with at most one refresh in flight.

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The selective filtering addresses #5272, but the client needs a fallback for older compatible servers before removing its existing suppression.

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Re-reviewed 87c4378. The capability-gated fallback resolves my mixed-version blocker. I checked capability initialization, endpoint switching, reconnect handling, and the regression coverage; no remaining code-review blockers found. Current CI is green. I did not rerun the suite locally or verify physical iTerm2 clicks; user testing remains useful before merge.

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JJ has built experimental test artifacts from this PR’s approved head, 87c4378c. We’d appreciate feedback on native labeled-link opening before merge. This is not a stable or preview release.

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Please leave your installed binary and existing sessions alone. Extract into a separate folder and open an ordinary terminal outside Herdr. In that folder:

macOS/Linux: rename the extracted executable to herdr-test, then run:

chmod +x ./herdr-test
./herdr-test --session link-feedback-5457

Windows: also extract the inner herdr-windows-x86_64.zip; keep herdr.exe and its bundled runtime files together. Open PowerShell in that extracted folder:

.\herdr.exe --session link-feedback-5457

Use that session name only for this test; choose another unused name if it already exists. Keep ui.mouse_capture = true (the default). For terminal → SSH → Herdr, run the matching host artifact in your ordinary SSH shell. If using a separate local Herdr client and remote server, both must run this build. An older server deliberately retains the old link suppression; changing only the client will not test the new behavior.

Feedback requested

In the test session, try your previously failing labeled link using your terminal’s usual shortcut, and check that tab clicks and split dragging still work. For SSH application links such as vscode:// or winscp-sftp://, check that the application opens on your local computer, not the remote host.

Please reply on issue #5272 with your OS, terminal/version, local or SSH setup, click gesture, and whether the link and mouse controls worked. If it fails, a non-private example of the link type/label is enough; no terminal transcript is needed.

Links claimed by enabled, available plugins remain reserved for Herdr and still need a Ctrl-click that the terminal forwards. This does not add plain-click activation or fix native detection of wrapped plain-text URLs. Wrapped explicit OSC 8 links should retain their full destination.

After saving any test work, use a separate ordinary terminal in the extracted folder to stop and delete only the test session:

./herdr-test session stop link-feedback-5457
./herdr-test session delete link-feedback-5457

On Windows, use .\herdr.exe instead of ./herdr-test. Stopping ends the test pane processes; deleting removes that test session’s saved state.

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Follow-up adds native targets for plain-text HTTP(S) URLs across real terminal wraps, using the existing bounded resolver. Regression coverage exercises native ANSI playback, continuation edits after plugin reservation, removal, offscreen and partial schemes, Unicode, hard-line boundaries, and clipping. Ordinary wrapped text retains incremental updates. No plugin API or wire changes.

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Re-reviewed c284fbd, including the new plain-text URL projection across soft wraps, explicit OSC 8 precedence, and invalidation when continuation text changes outside otherwise clean rows. No additional code-review blockers found. The tests cover destination creation, changes, removal, plugin reservation, and offscreen/clipped cases; the older-server capability fallback remains intact.

The reports in #5272 validate explicit-link opening and retained mouse controls on 87c4378 in Ghostty and Windows Terminal. They do not yet validate the new plain-text wrapping code, and Ghostty still required Shift+Command-click. Current build/test checks pass; Greptile is still pending. This review was code/test inspection, not a local test rerun or physical terminal validation.

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Corrected the P1 about plugin links bypassing handlers after changing mouse capture and switching connections. The client now sends the preference to every connected endpoint, replays the latest value after a connection finishes opening, and accepts local config-reload notices while another machine is active. Failed sends keep the existing per-connection failure handling.

The regression failed before the fix. Full local checks passed: 3,492 Rust tests, 13 existing skips, plus the remaining just check gates. No plugin API or wire changes. Platform artifacts will wait until CI and bot reviews are clear.

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Corrected the P2 about Ctrl-hover underlines on plugin-owned explicit web labels. The existing resolver now returns bounded visible regions for those labels, including wrapping and wide glyphs, without restoring native click targets. The client clips the response to its own pane. There are no wire or plugin API changes.

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Thanks for picking this up. Adding a Ghostty data point, since the earlier Ghostty test was over SSH to Linux.

Setup: macOS, Ghostty 1.3.2, herdr 0.9.5 stable, mouse capture on, Claude Code as the agent.

What I'm missing: in plain Ghostty, Cmd-hover underlines URLs and local file paths, and Cmd-click opens them (browser, Finder or the default app, Obsidian for vault notes). Ghostty does this from the visible text, so it works for agent output with no OSC 8 at all, e.g. /Users/me/project/README.md or src/app/actions.rs:1175. Inside herdr none of it works: Cmd-click is captured, and herdr's own Ctrl-click only opens http(s)://. Plain-text paths and file:///obsidian:// get no underline and no action, and there's no plugin workaround because the plugin only gets a click after herdr itself has recognised a link.

What would help: with #5457, links that no enabled plugin claims should go back to the terminal, and I hope that includes plain-text paths Ghostty detects, not just OSC 8 and http(s) text. Ideally plain Cmd-click and Cmd-hover would work the way they do outside herdr, without needing Shift. If Shift+Cmd is the best that's possible under mouse capture, documenting that for Ghostty users would already help a lot.

Happy to test a build on macOS/Ghostty.