I just added hyperlinks to my text editor in 35 lines of Lua

Here's the code.

Deep in the guts of the renderer, right before it renders a fragment of text, check if it's a file, and turn it into my button abstraction if so.

Caveats: links can't wrap over multiple lines, links can't contain spaces.

Incredibly inefficient, to check the file system for every single word. So it's in a fork for now while I decide just what to do with this new super power.

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It's interesting to compare this approach with Gemini.

Gemini: links on their own line, support arbitrary link text.

Me: inline links are ok, but the text will always be the URL.

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