Re: goto-address-at-point doesn't get the right url when there is a trailing ')'

[Amos Bird <amosbird@gmail.com>]

Thanks! will do.

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Amos Bird <amosbird@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When doing  (goto-address-at-point) at parenthesis surrounded urls like this
>> (https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rayon/issues/231) in any prog mode (c, java, python ...)
>>
>> it will grab the trailing ')' thus ends up with opening a wrong url.
>
>> Could you tell me a workaround for this?
>
> Don’t do that, then?
>
> A closing parenthesis is a valid URL character. Any heuristic that
> fixes your problem will break legal, standard-conforming URLs, such as
> this:
>
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnet_(video_game)
>
> If you want to enclose a URL in parentheses, put a pair of angle
> brackets <> around it first:
>
>     (<https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rayon/issues/231>)
>
> Angle brackets are not valid URL characters and are expicitly
> recommended as delimiters around URLs by RFC 2396 § 2.4.3 and RFC 3986
> Appendix C. Also, it is a Markdown construct for URLs displayed as-is.