An unexpected way to open links in the terminal

28 August 2024

Updated: 28 August 2024

I accidentally hit cmd + shift + o while in the terminal on VSCode which popped open a little window to navigate to the links to files that were currently printed out in my terminal - this seems like a more keyboard friendly way to do cmd + click on a link in the terminal

Upon further investigation it looks like the following is a thing:

1. When in the terminal, after running some command
2. Find a link (URL or file) that you want to open
3. Use the command pallette with cmd + shift + p and use the Terminal: Open Detected Link ... command
4. Browse the links, if it’s a file you’ll automatically preview the file, click enter to select a file or link to open

Tadaa, that’s about it - an accidental shortcut that I’ll most definitely be using in the future