Open a link in a new window in reStructuredText

Question

I want to open a link in a new window using reStucturedText. Is this possible?

This opens link in the same window:

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Answer 1

I agree completely with the accepted answer, especially with the part where reStructuredText is not responsible for how a link behaves.

I still want it though so it should be solved in the theme. As I want all my external links to open in a new tab it becomes very cumbersome to do it as described above.

In my case I use a third party theme (sphinx_rtd_theme) and I put the following script near the end of the layout.html:

It seems to do the job just fine. Hope it helps.