Terminal should advertise "Simple Browser"

[bpasero]

With a link such as:

Would be great to offer to open it in our "Simple Browser" editor:

[Tyriar]

Doing this would be a matter of registering a terminal link provider in the simple-browser extension:

vscode/src/vscode-dts/vscode.d.ts

Line 11049 in 83180a3

export function registerTerminalLinkProvider(provider: TerminalLinkProvider): Disposable;

[bpasero]

Oh nice! I might take a look.

[bpasero]

Having played with this API for 5 minutes, here is some feedback: for one, there does not seem to be a related extension activation mechanism for detecting links, forcing me to *-activate the simple browser extension.

But more importantly: it seems that I am taking over the entire handling of the link, even in presence of our default handler to open in the external web browser. I am not sure what I would expect, but my goal was just to give a hint that the link can optionally be opened in the simple browser as well, just as a way to make it discoverable in this case.

[Tyriar]

Yes I don't think there's an activation event, I don't think it's come up yet as GitLens and GHPRI are the main use cases.

For the default handler, this is currently handled within the extension itself. The hope was to eventually support multiple link handlers but was closed last year: #97070

[hediet]

This feature would also be very interesting for the edge dev tools extension (marketplace link).

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