Abusing url handling in iTerm2 and Hyper for code execution
What are escape sequences
Modern terminals are very capable tools with quite extended support for various escape sequences. These escape sequences are specially treated by terminal emulators to generate colors, cursor styles, cliboard access and even *wink* hyperlinks!
A few examples of commonly used escape sequences:
Change title of the terminal window to new-title:
$ echo -e "\e]2;new-title\a"
Ring a bell:
Hyperlinks in terminals
Most terminal emulators these days allow using Osc 8 to directly...
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