bug#38940: \x1b]8; ; OSC character displayed on hyperlinks shown after calls to `guix describe` or `guix show` on mate-terminal 1.12.1 (Trisquel 8)

[zimoun]

Hi Ludo,


On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 22:28, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:

> The theory is that terminals should ignore OSC codes that they do not
> support.  Good’ol xterm, for instance, silently ignores those hyperlink
> codes, whereas GNOME Terminal interprets them nicely.

Héhé! It is what the comment you wrote in `supports-hyperlinks?' says. :-)

1. Instead of INSIDE_EMACS, the variable name NO_SUPPORT_HYPERLINK or
other seems more meaningful. Maybe?
2. The comment should go in the docstring.


What do you think?



All the best,
simon