Clicking on contributed links in a text editor

[lppedd]

We contribute links to specific text editor documents via DocumentLinkProvider and DocumentLink.
What's the quickest/most reliable way to click on a link, given a TextEditor instance?

[lppedd]

Apparently at the moment there is no built-in abstraction for this.
What I ended up doing is, as an example:

const text = await editor.getText();
const coordinates = findStringCoordinates(text, "my link text");
assert.ok(coordinates, "...");

 // Do not use moveCursor, it's slower
const [row, col] = coordinates;
await editor.setCursor(row, col);

// Select at least a character/word
await editor.getDriver().actions().keyDown(Key.SHIFT).sendKeys(Key.ARROW_RIGHT).perform();
const selection = await editor.getSelection();
assert.ok(selection, "missing editor selection");

// Pass the selection to click(...), otherwise nothing happens
await selection.getDriver().actions().keyDown(Key.CONTROL).click(selection).perform();

/* ... */

function findStringCoordinates(text: string, str: string): [number, number] | undefined {
  const lines = text.split("\n");

  for (let index = 0; index < lines.length; index++) {
    const colIndex = lines[index].indexOf(str);

    if (colIndex > -1) {
      return [index + 1, colIndex + 1];
    }
  }

  return undefined;
}