relative and multiline local paths are not handles correctly when hold Command to click

[mitchellh]

Discussed in https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/9550

^{Originally posted by wsxarcher November 10, 2025}

Issue Description

When holding Command to click on local paths, they are not parsed correctly in 3 occasions.

• When the path starts with a hidden dot path (which by itself are ignored but not when there are more components)
• When the path goes on the next line and there is at least a / in the next line
• When a path is relative only the path after the first / is considered

Expected Behavior

Links should work for all situations as it does in iTerm2

Also when clicking on a relative path it should open the relative path (concatenating the cwd)

Actual Behavior

When clicking it fails to open because the paths are not correct

Reproduction Steps

du -h .hiddenpathwithlongsubdirs

Hold Command on a path

Ghostty Logs

N/A

Ghostty Version

Ghostty 1.2.3

Version
  - version: 1.2.3
  - channel: stable
Build Config
  - Zig version   : 0.14.1
  - build mode    : builtin.OptimizeMode.ReleaseFast
  - app runtime   : apprt.Runtime.none
  - font engine   : font.main.Backend.coretext
  - renderer      : renderer.generic.Renderer(renderer.Metal)
  - libxev        : kqueue

OS Version Information

macOS 26.1

(Linux only) Display Server

None

(Linux only) Desktop Environment/Window Manager

No response

Minimal Ghostty Configuration

N/A

Additional Relevant Configuration

No response

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