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Done. I also added that this enhancement allows you to "copy link" on some browsers, which is very convenient too.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> javadoc-dev <javadoc-dev-retn@openjdk.org> on behalf of David Alayachew <davidalayachew@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 18, 2025 3:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Hannes Wallnoefer <hannes.wallnoefer@oracle.com><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: Can we make the search results links?</font>
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<div dir="auto">Also, could you (or anyone else) link this discussion to the ticket? That way it's clear the sequence of events.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 11:16 AM David Alayachew <<a href="mailto:davidalayachew@gmail.com">davidalayachew@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Ty vm! Can't wait for it to go live to test. I often open many individual results from the search bar, so this feature will be very helpful for that.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 9:46 AM Hannes Wallnoefer <<a href="mailto:hannes.wallnoefer@oracle.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">hannes.wallnoefer@oracle.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>I looked into the issue. Your suggestion makes a lot of sense, and it looks like the simple solution you propose would indeed work. </div>
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<div>I’ve assigned the issue to myself and targeted it to JDK 26. Thanks for the reminder, and sorry for letting the request linger for such a long time!</div>
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<div>On 10.08.2025, at 02:49, David Alayachew <<a href="mailto:davidalayachew@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">davidalayachew@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Hello <a class="x_gmail_plusreply" id="x_m_-2946346269739073870m_-5722497010127478403plusReplyChip-0" href="mailto:javadoc-dev@openjdk.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">@javadoc-dev@openjdk.org</a>,</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">I am the original submitter of the following feature enhancement -- <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8284499" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8284499</a>.</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Long story short, the feature enhancement is asking for the ability to open Javadoc search results in a new tab. Preferably through Ctrl+Click and/or Right-Click-Context-Menu.</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">I was looking at the source code for it, and I realized that we could achieve an 80/20 solution regarding my linked feature enhancement, simply by making the search results on the Javadoc search page
links. As in, literal <a href> links.</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">- A link is Ctrl+clickable</div>
<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">- A link has the right click context menu, allowing you to make a new tab</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">It looks like the only code that would need to change besides making them links is making sure Ctrl+Click does not clash with the onclick behaviour. But that should be super trivial to implement.</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Anyways, I wanted to hear opinions on it. Does the feature enhancement itself makes sense? And if so, would it be feasible/realistic to handle it with my idea above?</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Thank you for your time.</div>
<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">David Alayachew</div>
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