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by derefr 102 days ago
In every implementation I've seen, the link only becomes clickable if you hold down a modifier key. By default, the links are just text. Which should make intuitive sense, because otherwise it'd be breaking existing semantics, as it would e.g. make it impossible to highlight the underlying text to copy-and-paste. (Or to send a click event to the underlying PTY-controlling process-group leader when mouse reporting is active.) I presume your "somehow" happened to involve you holding whatever modifier key your terminal emulator required.

Also, sounding isn't a weird sex thing per se; it's a mundane (and somewhat painful) medical procedure. One that some people happen to coincidentally have a kink for, mostly due to the discomfort involved. But "some weird people having a kink for medical procedure X" is true of many/most medical procedures.
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knodi123 102 days ago
> the link only becomes clickable if you hold down a modifier key.

Fun trick not a lot of people know -

In a web browser, links which are normally clickable become UN-clickable if you hold a modifier. On a mac, it's (option). It's helpful if you want to select text inside a large link (or in a button) so you can copy it.

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sheept 102 days ago
This might be operating system/browser-specific. On Windows Chrome, shift-click opens in new window, ctrl in new tab, and alt downloads the link.
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dbdr 102 days ago
Thanks, I did not know! On Firefox/Linux, it's Alt and dragging the mouse through the part of the text you want.
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tombert 102 days ago
It was iTerm, and yeah I it did require a modifier key.

I had gotten it in my head that the way that you highlight a line in iTerm (and I have no idea where I heard this or why I thought it) was holding command and clicking on the line. It was a mistake I made exactly once.

I am afraid I didn't investigate sounding after I saw the horrifying image; I only learned the name for it after I described the image to someone and they told me what it was; I guess I assumed it was just a weird sex thing, I didn't realize that there was any practical medicine stuff to it.

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