From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
Cc: 33043@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33043: [PATCH v1 1/1] Support for the truncation of displayed URLs
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:38:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnw7fskz.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cuny3avvbk3.fsf@dme.org> (David Edmondson's message of "Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:39:08 +0100")
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David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:
> On Wednesday, 2018-10-17 at 23:27:45 +01, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
>
>> Couldn't we reuse url-truncate-url-for-viewing, which tries to be smart
>> about where it places the ellipsis, for this? I think the existing code
>> can also be cleaned up a little:
>
> I didn't know about url-truncate-url-for-viewing, no other reason.
>
> I'd be happy with your change, but note that it will always truncate
> URLs that are wider than the current frame - there is no way to have no
> truncation take place.
>
> If a user is most familiar with something like ffap to open URLs then
> this is unfortunate - ffap doesn't see the full URL in the buffer.
Sorry, that was an oversight. Here's how the last patch can be patched
to support the default of no truncation:
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diff --git a/lisp/net/rcirc.el b/lisp/net/rcirc.el
index de28cdb054..31f0baddc0 100644
--- a/lisp/net/rcirc.el
+++ b/lisp/net/rcirc.el
@@ -2495,7 +2495,9 @@ rcirc-markup-urls
;; `insert-text-button', rather than `insert-button', as text
;; property buttons are much faster in large buffers.
(insert-text-button
- (url-truncate-url-for-viewing url rcirc-url-max-length)
+ (if rcirc-url-max-length
+ (url-truncate-url-for-viewing url rcirc-url-max-length)
+ url)
'face 'rcirc-url
'follow-link t
'rcirc-url url
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If you prefer to avoid deletion and insertion when rcirc-url-max-length
is nil, you can also write the following:
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diff --git a/lisp/net/rcirc.el b/lisp/net/rcirc.el
index fe9c71a21c..4d62b382a6 100644
--- a/lisp/net/rcirc.el
+++ b/lisp/net/rcirc.el
@@ -2485,24 +2485,27 @@ rcirc-markup-my-nick
(rcirc-record-activity (current-buffer) 'nick)))))
(defun rcirc-markup-urls (_sender _response)
- (while (and rcirc-url-regexp ;; nil means disable URL catching
+ (while (and rcirc-url-regexp ; nil means disable URL catching.
(re-search-forward rcirc-url-regexp nil t))
- (let* ((start (match-beginning 0))
+ (let* ((beg (match-beginning 0))
(end (match-end 0))
- (url (match-string-no-properties 0))
- (link-text (buffer-substring-no-properties start end)))
+ (url (buffer-substring-no-properties beg end)))
+ (when rcirc-url-max-length
+ (replace-match (url-truncate-url-for-viewing url rcirc-url-max-length)
+ t t)
+ (setq end (point)))
;; Add a button for the URL. Note that we use `make-text-button',
;; rather than `make-button', as text-buttons are much faster in
;; large buffers.
- (make-text-button start end
+ (make-text-button beg end
'face 'rcirc-url
'follow-link t
'rcirc-url url
'action (lambda (button)
(browse-url (button-get button 'rcirc-url))))
- ;; record the url if it is not already the latest stored url
- (when (not (string= link-text (caar rcirc-urls)))
- (push (cons link-text start) rcirc-urls)))))
+ ;; Record the URL if it is not already the latest stored URL.
+ (unless (string= url (caar rcirc-urls))
+ (push (cons url beg) rcirc-urls)))))
(defun rcirc-markup-keywords (sender response)
(when (and (string= response "PRIVMSG")
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Thanks,
--
Basil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-18 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-15 10:04 bug#33043: 27.0.50; wishlist: rcirc should allow truncation of visible URLs David Edmondson
2018-10-15 10:06 ` bug#33043: [PATCH v1 1/1] Support for the truncation of displayed URLs David Edmondson
2018-10-17 22:27 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-18 9:39 ` David Edmondson
2018-10-18 10:38 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2018-10-18 10:50 ` David Edmondson
2018-10-27 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-28 3:14 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-29 16:01 ` David Edmondson
2018-10-29 18:27 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-11-03 9:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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