URLs are not always linked properly

URLs are not always linked properly

[PT]

For example, for this URL the bracketed part is not handled as part of the URL, 
though it should be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)

Re: URLs are not always linked properly

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi PT,

could you please repeat your subject in the mail when it is part of  
the running text of the report.  If you don't, the text in the mail  
does not make sense.

On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:10 PM, PT wrote:

> For example, for this URL the bracketed part is not handled as part  
> of the URL,
> though it should be:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)

More often than not parenthesis are around a link, not part of it -  
this is why the plain link heuristics does not allow them.   Please  
surround such links with <..> or [[..]]


- Carsten

Re: URLs are not always linked properly

[William Henney]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:10 PM, PT wrote:
>
>> For example, for this URL the bracketed part is not handled as part of the
>> URL,
>> though it should be:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)
>
> More often than not parenthesis are around a link, not part of it - this is
> why the plain link heuristics does not allow them.   Please surround such
> links with <..> or [[..]]
>
>

Coincidentally, just last Friday John Gruber posted a regex that deals
nicely with these cases:

http://daringfireball.net/2009/11/liberal_regex_for_matching_urls

I think it is a perl-style regex, but perhaps it could be ported to
emacs regexes.

Cheers

Will


-- 

  Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia

Re: URLs are not always linked properly

[Carsten Dominik]

On Dec 2, 2009, at 4:19 AM, William Henney wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Carsten Dominik
> <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:10 PM, PT wrote:
>>
>>> For example, for this URL the bracketed part is not handled as  
>>> part of the
>>> URL,
>>> though it should be:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)
>>
>> More often than not parenthesis are around a link, not part of it -  
>> this is
>> why the plain link heuristics does not allow them.   Please  
>> surround such
>> links with <..> or [[..]]
>>
>>
>
> Coincidentally, just last Friday John Gruber posted a regex that deals
> nicely with these cases:
>
> http://daringfireball.net/2009/11/liberal_regex_for_matching_urls
>
> I think it is a perl-style regex, but perhaps it could be ported to
> emacs regexes.

Yes, this one looks good.  I am now using part of this
expression (but in Org-mode we insist on a protocol like "http:").

This change *might* break matching in XEmacs, I have tried to make
it work, but please, XEmacs users, let me know if there are problems.

Thanks Will!

- Carsten

>
> Cheers
>
> Will
>
>
> -- 
>
>  Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
>  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia