Re: 23.0.0; (thing-at-point 'url) returns invalid urls

[Davis Herring]

>> ... unless the word is www.google.com or savannah.gnu.org.  So to me the
>> behavior looks good.  I think it's much better to return an URL that may
>> not exist than always returning nil if the URL lacks the protocol spec.
>
> but those examples are easy to parse as they have '.' in them i.e. we
> can improve thing-at-point.

Not really.  I'm able to resolve addresses for "localhost" and "hk" (the
gTLD for Hong Kong), as well as a variety of names that are meaningful
only on this network.  If I ask Emacs to interpret any of those names as a
URL, it would be silly of it to reject them and not "fsf.org"!

Davis

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