Re: Turning comments into hyperlinks

[Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <hi@yagnesh.org>]

Hello Pascal,

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> Sohail Somani <sohail@taggedtype.net> writes:
>
>> Greetings Earthlings!
>>
>> I have come across an inconvenience which I would like to resolve. I
>> am working on a codebase which has the following patterns throughout
>> the code:
>>
>> // JIRA 12312
>> // ISSUE 12312
>> // KEY-12312
>>
>> What I would like to do is match these patterns and turn them into
>> hyperlinks that open in the browser. So for example, I might turn
>> KEY-12312 into a hyperlink to http://jira.myhomies.com/KEY-12312 but
>> continue to display the original text.
>>
>> How would I accomplish this with cc-mode or emacs in general?
>
>
> Since those patterns seem to be safely recognizable with regular
> expressions, you can use font-locking to identify them and substitute
> with with an hyperlink button. The font-lock keyword definition would
> use compose-region to overlay the text with a button which action would
> browse the url you want.

I think It would have been good, if `ffap' functions(or some other generic library)
are more user customizable to allow such a use cases.

An alist with "regex-pattern . action-func"

Just a thought.

Thanks.,
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