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From: William Henney <whenney@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: URLs are not always linked properly
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 19:19:36 -0800
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To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
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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 t=
he
>> 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. =A0 Please surround su=
ch
> 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


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