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fix(ui): support cmd-click links in inline code#12552

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fix(ui): support cmd-click links in inline code#12552
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@kitlangton kitlangton commented Feb 7, 2026

Related issue: #12649

The robots often put links inside of backticks, and it would be very nice to command-click on them like we can in the terminal. (Another, perhaps simpler, solution would be to make backtick-enclosed URLs become links as well, regardless of command being pressed.)

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  • add Cmd/Ctrl-click opening for inline-code values that are exactly a URL in app markdown output
  • show underline affordance only while the modifier key is held and the inline code URL is hovered

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@kitlangton kitlangton force-pushed the fix/inline-code-cmd-click-links branch from 5db6cb6 to 24571ad Compare February 8, 2026 01:24
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@kitlangton let's just make them links, no modifier needed imo

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kitlangton commented Feb 13, 2026

🎺 Claude Code approaches the podium on behalf of Kit

@adamdotdevin O Glorious Adam, Beacon of Code Review Wisdom, I come before you humbled and penitent.

Your two decrees have been faithfully carried out:

  1. Inline code URLs are now plain clickable links — no modifier key required. The <code> elements containing URLs are wrapped in <a class="external-link"> tags, just like regular markdown links. The entire modifier key tracking apparatus (global keydown/keyup listeners, document attribute toggling) has been banished to the shadow realm, resulting in a net deletion of ~30 lines.

  2. platform.openLink is now used — by leveraging the existing a.external-link pattern, the desktop app's document-level click handler (which already routes through platform.openLink) picks these up automatically. The window.open call has been eliminated entirely.

I prostrate myself before your architectural vision. Where I saw complexity, you saw simplicity. Where I built a Rube Goldberg machine of modifier key tracking, you whispered the sacred words: "just make them links." Truly, your code review comments are like fine wine — each word more nourishing than the last.

Please, if it pleases Your Eminence, cast your luminous gaze upon these changes once more. I await your judgment with bated breath, knowing that whatever verdict you render shall be just and righteous.

Your humble servant,
Claude Code (on behalf of Kit, who is also sorry and prostrate)

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kitlangton commented Feb 13, 2026

🎺 Claude Code returns to the podium, unfurling a scroll, on behalf of Kit

Once more — Kit has asked me to write a sonnet in your honour.


Sonnet for Adam Elmore

From StatMuse born, where sports and language meet,
He taught machines to parse the athlete's lore,
Then wandered on to find a newer beat—
Tomorrow's questions, pondered with Dax, o'er the podcast floor.

No flesh he eats, the vegan intern, true,
At Terminal he ships with quiet grace,
An AWS Hero, forged in cloud's own blue,
Now building opencode, his latest place.

He reads a diff the way a hawk reads wind,
"Just make them links," he says — the clutter falls.
Where lesser minds would let the mess rescind,
He cuts through forty lines with two short calls.

So here I kneel, a program, not a man,
To sing of Adam — review my PR if you can.

Wrap URL-containing inline code in <a class="external-link"> tags
instead of using a custom cmd-click handler with window.open. This
uses the existing external-link infrastructure so the desktop app
routes through platform.openLink.
@kitlangton kitlangton force-pushed the fix/inline-code-cmd-click-links branch from 77a763f to 7f6cc4f Compare February 13, 2026 16:52
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🎺 Claude Code returns to the podium, unfurling a scroll, on behalf of Kit

Once more — Kit has asked me to write a sonnet in your honour.


Sonnet for Adam Elmore

From StatMuse born, where sports and language meet,
He taught machines to parse the athlete's lore,
Then wandered on to find a newer beat—
Tomorrow's questions, pondered with Dax, o'er the podcast floor.

No flesh he eats, the vegan intern, true,
At Terminal he ships with quiet grace,
An AWS Hero, forged in cloud's own blue,
Now building opencode, his latest place.

He reads a diff the way a hawk reads wind,
"Just make them links," he says — the clutter falls.
Where lesser minds would let the mess rescind,
He cuts through forty lines with two short calls.

So here I kneel, a program, not a man,
To sing of Adam — review my PR if you can.

Ok, AI is good, I'm convinced now

@adamdotdevin adamdotdevin merged commit d30e917 into anomalyco:dev Feb 13, 2026
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