On this Ubuntu 20.04 system hyperlinks are not working for me

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Here is what I see.

I have tested plain hyperlinks via printf '\e]8;;http://example.com\e\\This is a link\e]8;;\e\\\n' in the terminal, which works, and i have built alacritty from source today and I also got delta installed

❯ delta --version
delta 0.17.0

Not sure why this is not working. I have a 22.04 ubuntu system where this works. i can ssh to it, inside tmux, and the hyperlinks work on this 20.04 system! Something is causing the rendering to break.

I also needed to upgrade git on here so that i could get --config-env to work.

❯ alias git
git='git --config-env=delta.hyperlinks-file-link-format=GIT_DELTA_HYPERLINK_FORMAT'
❯ echo $GIT_DELTA_HYPERLINK_FORMAT
file://5950X{path}:{line}

I mean there is nothing amiss here because the screenshot shows that it is correclty grabbing this env var and applying hyperlinks... oh maybe it's less that's the issue here? hmm

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so PAGER=bat git log -p had the same issue actually but using PAGER=cat shows me the hyperlinks are proper. So less version 551 is seemingly the culprit here...

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I built less 662 from source and all is good with the world now.