Most apps use width poorly, with lots of empty space towards the right.

Long lines of text are also less readable.

So more apps should be using some sort of column layout when the window is wide.

However, narrow columns magnify a different problem: urls can't be clicked on if they span multiple lines.

One possible solution: an escape sequence to hyperlink to urls in shorter text. https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda lists terminals supporting it. Does your terminal?

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