Re: [PATCH 2/2] emacs: Improve the regexp used to match id:'s in messages

[Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> This regexp agrees with Xapian query syntax much more closely, though
> we specifically disallow various cases that would be confusing in the
> context of an email body (e.g., punctuation at the end of an id: link
> is not considered part of the id: link because it's probably part of
> the surrounding text).
>
> In particular, this handles id: links that are not surrounded by
> quotes much better, which stash is much more likely to generate now
> that we don't quote id's that don't need to be quoted.  It also
> handles quoted id: links better.
>
> We update the buttonization test to reflect the new pattern.

Hi Austin, all of this looks good as-is, but I propose the changes below
on top. (With the relevant comment changed too.)

BR,
Jani.


diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-show.el b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
index e96e099..117eb0e 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-show.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ message at DEPTH in the current thread."
    ;; next space or ).  We disallow [.,;] as the last character
    ;; because these are probably part of the surrounding text, and not
    ;; part of the id.  This doesn't match single character ids; meh.
-   "\\|[^\"[:space:])][^[:space:])]*[^[:space:]).,;]"
+   "\\|[^\"[:space:])][^[:space:])]*[^])[:space:].,:;?!]"
    "\\)")
   "The regexp used to match id: links in messages.")
 
diff --git a/test/emacs-show b/test/emacs-show
index e16483c..e2d7c70 100755
--- a/test/emacs-show
+++ b/test/emacs-show
@@ -109,7 +109,12 @@ test_expect_equal_file OUTPUT $EXPECTED/notmuch-show-indent-thread-content-off
 test_begin_subtest "id buttonization"
 add_message '[body]="
 id:abc
-id:abc.def. id:abc,def, id:abc;def;
+id:abc.def. id:abc,def, id:abc;def; id:abc:def:
+id:foo@bar.?baz? id:foo@bar!.baz!
+(id:foo@bar.baz) [id:foo@bar.baz]
+id:foo@bar.baz...
+id:2+2=5
+id:=_-:/.[]@$%+
 id:abc)def
 id:ab\"c def
 id:\"abc\"def
@@ -131,7 +136,12 @@ To: Notmuch Test Suite <test_suite@notmuchmail.org>
 Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:43:57 +0000
 
 <<id:abc>>
-<<id:abc.def>>. <<id:abc,def>>, <<id:abc;def>>;
+<<id:abc.def>>. <<id:abc,def>>, <<id:abc;def>>; <<id:abc:def>>:
+<<id:foo@bar.?baz>>? <<id:foo@bar!.baz>>!
+(<<id:foo@bar.baz>>) [<<id:foo@bar.baz>>]
+<<id:foo@bar.baz>>...
+<<id:2+2=5>>
+<<id:=_-:/.[]@$%+>>
 <<id:abc>>)def
 <<id:ab"c>> def
 <<id:"abc">>def