Open links in browser

[guyfedwards]

Add ability to open (maybe also mouse support?) for links within an article

[p5quared]

In newsboat all links are followed by a [x] thing, where x is a number and at the very bottom of the article there's a section like the following:

[1] first link in the article url [2] second link in the article url

In newsboat you can configure a key where after pressing it inside an article it will prompt you for a number and after specifying which number/link you meant it opens it in a web browser.

What do you think of the Newsboat approach mentioned in #34?
A simple <#> to open any links; and just add an annotation for each link that is rendered.

Some sort of popup modal seems like overkill?

[guyfedwards]

Yea I think that seems like a good solution. It generally seems that newsboat has a lot of good UX features so can worth building on them. Unsure about the best ui for it, probably a panel up from the bottom with list of links and the numbers that can then be selected by typing the desired link number., similar to how the ? help panel appears currently

[p5quared]

What about supporting two options?
For example:

• o + <#> opens a link with annotation [#](haven't looked enough into bubbletea but I'd imagine there's a way to register multi-key inputs)

• O opens list of all links, and then press some <#> to open a specific link?

If this seems agreeable I can look into implementing.

[guyfedwards]

Yea those seem like solid sugggestions, would welcome the contribution.

One thing to note on the opening aspect is not to rely on xdg-open being on the system and so perhaps defaulting to xdg-open but allowigin a config option for overriding with another binary would be good.