`.file` creates links to files that don't exist

[hadley]

e.g. cli::cli_inform("{.file doesntexist}")

[gaborcsardi]

Yeah, that's intentional. Eg with a link to .Rprofile you can create the file if it does not exist. Idk what rstudio does in this case, though.

[hadley]

It errors when you click on it 😬

[gaborcsardi]

Yeah, so we could fix this in cli. But I think it would be actually quite useful to "fix" it in the IDE, e.g. for newly created .Renviron and .Rprofile files on Windows, where it is not obvious where they should be.

[hadley]

But even if it did do something, we need some way in cli to label relative paths that we don't expect to be clickable. It would also be nice to have a different path than what's shown (so you could provide an absolute path but show a relative path), but even then it's useful to have something that doesn't attempt to add the links.

[gaborcsardi]

Yeah, I left these for "hyperlinks, part two". There are a lot of possibilities, so won't be able to have a good DSL, but we'll have explicit function calls to cover all of them.