From: Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Adding email address support to thingatpt.el.
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:37:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E3DFA9.5000608@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abyz7qgd.fsf@floss.red-bean.com>
>
>> AFAIU rfc2822, several more chars are allowed to be
>> part of an email-adress than regexp honours now:
>>
>
> It's tough to know what to include. Many characters that technically
> could be part of an email address are rarely used in practice, and
> instead appear much more often as delimiters (in certain contexts).
> So if thingatpt.el is to Do The Right Thing most often for the user,
> it probably can't comply precisely with the RFC.
>
>
If Emacs is more restrictive than RFC2822, errors and
bug-reports are ahead.
BTW: Does RFC2822 indeed require at least two chars before
the `@'? I'm not sure about it, but can't see that.
So the core of my regexp, taking the ranges from RFC, is this:
[\041-\132\136-\176]+@[\041-\132\136-\176]+
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Andreas Roehler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-27 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-25 19:25 Adding email address support to thingatpt.el Karl Fogel
2007-02-25 10:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-26 3:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-26 13:31 ` Karl Fogel
2007-02-26 18:00 ` Andreas Roehler
2007-02-27 12:08 ` Karl Fogel
2007-02-27 7:37 ` Andreas Roehler [this message]
2007-02-27 14:49 ` Drew Adams
2007-02-27 20:49 ` Karl Fogel
2007-02-27 17:19 ` Karl Fogel
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