Escape sequences in description does not work.

[zbigniew-polito]

When I put valid OSC-8 escape sequence into Description text field. It does not get displayed correctly.

To Reproduce
~/.vit/formatters/description.py :

from functools import reduce

from vit.formatter import String
from vit.util import unicode_len

jira_url='https://someurl.com/browse/'

#echo -e '\e]8;;http://example.com\e\\This is a link\e]8;;\e\\

class Description(String):
  def format(self, description, task):
        if not description:
            return self.empty()
        try:
            jiraid, description = description.split(":",1)
            link = f"\x1b]8;;{jira_url}{jiraid}\x07{jiraid}\x1b]8;;\x07"
            print(link)
        except:
            pass

        width = unicode_len(description)
        colorized_description = self.colorize_description(description)
        if task['annotations']:
            annotation_width, colorized_description = self.format_combined(colorized_description, task)
            if annotation_width > width:
                width = annotation_width

        try:
            colorized_description[0]= (colorized_description[0][0],link+":"+colorized_description[0][1])
            return (width+len(jiraid), colorized_description)
        except:
            return (width, colorized_description)


    ...rest of missing Description methods copied from oryginal Description class ...

Expected behavior

Inside of vit, on the main screen with tasks list, a task with description:

SOME-ID: Some task description

should get printed as:

SOME-ID: Some task description

where SOME-ID is due to being OSC-8 escaped a clickable element within terminal making it a working valid hyperlink that opens web-browser at specified address when clicked with mouse pointer.

now the observed behavior is :

?]8;;https://someurl.com/browse/SOME-ID?SOME-ID?]8;;?: Some task description

gets printed while description string outputted with print(link) gets parsed by terminal correctly and is a valid hyperlink

[thehunmonkgroup]

I worked with Codex to implement #370 -- it needs to be verified as working before I would merge it, @zbigniew-polito can you check it out and see if this new focused interface will suit your needs, and works properly?

[zbigniew-polito]

I am very sorry but this does not work, it did not changed anything.

[thehunmonkgroup]

@zbigniew-polito I'm going to need better feedback than that in order to assist any further. Did you apply the PR and use the example description formatter override provided in the PR? If so, what happened? Did you attempt to make any changes to the code to see if you could fix the issue?

[zbigniew-polito]

Yes. I did and nothing happened, no change at all.
You must be kidding me, if i would know what to change to make this work you would'nt see me here in the first place.

[thehunmonkgroup]

I spent some more time working with #370 and the Codex implementation is insufficient. I suspect that enabling this feature would require a much deeper refactor of VIT's formatting logic, not something I'm willing to invest the time in.

I'll leave this open in case anyone wants to take a crack at it.