Julia-vscode: URL in docs don't work

[miguelraz]

using Distributions 

help?> :Beta
  Beta(α,β)

  The Beta distribution has probability density function

f(x; \alpha, \beta) = \frac{1}{B(\alpha, \beta)}
 x^{\alpha - 1} (1 - x)^{\beta - 1}, \quad x \in [0, 1]

  The Beta distribution is related to the Gamma distribution via the property that if X \sim \operatorname{Gamma}(\alpha) and Y \sim
  \operatorname{Gamma}(\beta) independently, then X / (X + Y) \sim Beta(\alpha, \beta).

  Beta()        # equivalent to Beta(1, 1)
  Beta(a)       # equivalent to Beta(a, a)
  Beta(a, b)    # Beta distribution with shape parameters a and b

  params(d)     # Get the parameters, i.e. (a, b)

  External links

    •    Beta distribution on Wikipedia

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[davidanthoff]

Do you mean the URL in the terminal window? Or something else?

[miguelraz]

Yes! I would have hoped to be able to click the link within the terminal.
The lack of underlining might also mean that other links that are not so explicit about linking outwards to the net will even be underlined.

[KristofferC]

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/24803

[davidanthoff]

Cool, lets see whether this works better with the changes in base. I don't think there is anything we can do here on our end, so I'm closing this.