can we customize link detection in VSCODE's integrated terminal

Question

VSCODE can auto-detect links in the integrated terminal as below.

Can it be customized? Ex: All email IDs to be opened in the default mail app.

Answer 1

you will need to create extension that includes api call to vscode

here, there is code snippet to show how to add custom TerminalLinkProvider:

window.registerTerminalLinkProvider({
  provideTerminalLinks: (context, token) => {
    // Detect the first instance of the word "test" if it exists and linkify it
    const startIndex = (context.line as string).indexOf('test');
    if (startIndex === -1) {
      return [];
    }
    // Return an array of link results, this example only returns a single link
    return [
      {
        startIndex,
        length: 'test'.length,
        tooltip: 'Show a notification',
        // You can return data in this object to access inside handleTerminalLink
        data: 'Example data'
      }
    ];
  },
  handleTerminalLink: (link: any) => {
    vscode.window.showInformationMessage(`Link activated (data = ${link.data})`);
  }
});

there is simple extension that use this at github

and official guide for start your first extension.

you can build visx to install in every vscode manually or publish it.

credit - Howto add a custom link provider