Ctrl+click can not open correct directory?

[vinlyx]

When I used ctrl+click to open a folder like /bin, the terminal opened a bin folder in "%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin" instead of the real bin folder of WSL ("%LOCALAPPDATA%\lxss\rootfs\bin").
A missing path error would be raised when I tried to open /sbin which doesn't exist in "%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty".
It is a bug of wsltty or I need to change some configuration? Thanks!

wsltty version: 0.7.3
Windows version: 14393.576
mintty was launched by "WSL Bash % in Mintty" shortcut.

[mintty]

Link-click adaptation for WSL was implemented in mintty 2.7.1 but only for paths outside the WSL root (starting with /mnt). Because the WSL file system is well hidden deep in the user's folders, I assumed the reverse mapping was not desired; also it's slightly more tricky. I'll check.

[vinlyx]

@mintty Thanks for the detailed explanation~! I think the Link-click is one of the best feature of mintty. It will be very convenient if we can have this feature on WSL. Thanks~!

[mintty]

Released 0.7.4.

[ghost]

This is still not working properly in 1.7.9. It can only open files and directories directly under C:\Users<USERNAME>. And it always assume Ctrl-Click is in this directory.

[mintty]

Used to work once...

[mintty]

Released 1.8.0.

[ghost]

Still not working in the newest release. Only work for files under /mnt/c/Users/<user_name>. It doesn't work for sub directories from there.

[mintty]

Actually, for me it works. Mind two things:

• Relative path names work only relative to the start directory as mintty cannot detect the current shell working directory of a WSL shell.
• Path names with spaces make trouble, and there are many of them below /mnt/c/Users/<user_name>.

If you find an issue that does not match one of these two limitations, please describe it in detail.

[ghost]

Please see screenshots.

[mintty]

This matches bullet 1 above. You started in C:\Users\Min and the relative pathname is interpreted from there. Mintty has no way to detect that the WSL shell has meanwhile changed into subdirectory test.

This is in fact different from a cygwin shell, for which mintty can detect that because it's running within the same runtime environment.
However, a feature to explicitly set the current working directory for reference is available already (OSC 7 from Mac Terminal); it's currently used with Alt+F2 in cygwin; support for its interaction with WSL can probably be added.

[ghost]

I see. Thanks a lot for the explanation. Now I understand why it doesn't work. Looking forward to full support of Ctrl-Click in wsltty in the future.

[mintty]

Released 1.8.1. Please recheck.

[ghost]

The behavior in the new release 1.8.1 is still the same. But I understand the difficulty of the issue. Thanks a lot for updating this.

[mintty]

However, a feature to explicitly set the current working directory for reference is available already (OSC 7 from Mac Terminal); it's currently used with Alt+F2 in cygwin; support for its interaction with WSL can probably be added.

Done.

[mintty]

Released 1.9.0. Ctrl+click considers OSC 7.