How do I enable hyperlinks on hidden paths in Konsole?

[the-ge]

Hi!

I discovered that clicking to open a path the editor works only for paths not starting with a dot, which puzzled me, as grep does not have this issue. Sadly (because I like ripgrep's perceived speed), this and the fact that there is no possibility to change the separator between the line number and the matched line content (and, based on what I've read, it will likely never be, while grep allows me to use a tab), decrease ripgrep's usefullness to me quite a bit.

Is there setting that fixes this issue?

Info:

• command: rg --no-heading --hidden 'search string'
• ripgrep version: 15.1.0
• Konsole version: 26.04.2
• system: Manjaro Linux 26.1.0-pre

Thank you!

[starkmarkus]

I think this is probably Konsole’s hyperlink/path detection rather than ripgrep itself.

rg --hidden should print matches from hidden files/directories normally. If the output contains a path like:

.hidden/file.txt:12:matched text

and Konsole does not turn that into a clickable link, then the terminal emulator is probably failing to recognize paths that start with .. ripgrep is just printing text; the clickable editor link is added by Konsole.

One workaround to test is forcing paths to include ./:

rg --hidden --no-heading --no-line-number --color=never 'search string' ./

so the output becomes more like:

./.hidden/file.txt:12:matched text

That may be easier for Konsole to recognize than a path starting directly with .hidden.

Also, on the separator point: ripgrep does have separator options now. For matching lines you can use --field-match-separator, and for context lines --field-context-separator. For example:

rg --hidden --no-heading --field-match-separator $'\t' 'search string'

So if Konsole recognizes grep output better because of a different separator or path shape, it may be worth testing ./ plus a custom field separator.

In short: I do not think hidden paths are intentionally unsupported by ripgrep. This sounds more like a terminal hyperlink-detection issue, and rg --hidden ... ./ would be the first thing I would try.

[the-ge]

You're spot on!

grep adds ./ in front of the results. After adding it to the script I'm using as a shorthand, it works.

Thank you!

[BurntSushi]

Fun fact that grep only adds ./ when you pass an explicit path starting with .. But it omits it if you omit the path to search (which I believe is a GNU extension):

[andrew@bart ripgrep]$ grep -r --exclude-dir target 'fn is_empty' . | head -n5
./crates/globset/src/lib.rs:    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
./crates/globset/src/lib.rs:    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
./crates/regex/src/literal.rs:    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
./crates/cli/src/process.rs:    pub(crate) fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
./crates/matcher/src/lib.rs:    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
[andrew@bart ripgrep]$ grep -r --exclude-dir target 'fn is_empty' ./ | head -n5
./crates/globset/src/lib.rs:    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
./crates/globset/src/lib.rs:    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
./crates/regex/src/literal.rs:    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
./crates/cli/src/process.rs:    pub(crate) fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
./crates/matcher/src/lib.rs:    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
[andrew@bart ripgrep]$ grep -r --exclude-dir target 'fn is_empty' | head -n5
crates/globset/src/lib.rs:    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
crates/globset/src/lib.rs:    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
crates/regex/src/literal.rs:    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
crates/cli/src/process.rs:    pub(crate) fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
crates/matcher/src/lib.rs:    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {

ripgrep (intentionally) has the same behavior:

[andrew@bart ripgrep]$ rg 'fn is_empty' . | head -n5
./GUIDE.md:$ time rg --pre pre-rg 'fn is_empty' -c
./GUIDE.md:$ time rg --pre pre-rg --pre-glob '*.pdf' 'fn is_empty' -c
./crates/regex/src/literal.rs:    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
./crates/ignore/src/overrides.rs:    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
./crates/ignore/src/gitignore.rs:    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
[andrew@bart ripgrep]$ rg 'fn is_empty' ./ | head -n5
./GUIDE.md:$ time rg --pre pre-rg 'fn is_empty' -c
./GUIDE.md:$ time rg --pre pre-rg --pre-glob '*.pdf' 'fn is_empty' -c
./crates/cli/src/process.rs:    pub(crate) fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
./crates/globset/src/lib.rs:    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
./crates/globset/src/lib.rs:    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
[andrew@bart ripgrep]$ rg 'fn is_empty' | head -n5
GUIDE.md:$ time rg --pre pre-rg 'fn is_empty' -c
GUIDE.md:$ time rg --pre pre-rg --pre-glob '*.pdf' 'fn is_empty' -c
crates/globset/src/lib.rs:    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
crates/globset/src/lib.rs:    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
crates/ignore/src/gitignore.rs:    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {