Allow opening links without using the keyboard

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the terminal's contextual menu and the existing cmd-click link-opening behavior. Confirm how links are identified and how the menu opens URLs; done means an "Open Url" option is available for links and works without keyboard input.

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Description

area:settings-keybindings enhancement triaged
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Describe the solution you'd like?
Right now the only way to open a link from the terminal is to `cmd` + `click`. I think it would be useful to also alow opening the link from the context menu by just adding a "Open Url" option.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Sometimes I'm working single handed and I can't open the links in the terminal.
Additional context

Add the new option to this contextual menu:

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How important is this feature to you?

3

Warp Internal (ignore) - linear-label:770f6576-d6c0-4e4f-a259-fc64b5156087

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