RE: address@hidden: 23.0.0; (thing-at-point 'url) returns invalid urls]

[Davis Herring]

> And what to return when probably-intended-URL recognition fails? nil?
> Whatever is currently at point, without prepending http://? Should http://
> ever be prepended (e.g. if "www." satisfies the test for likely URL, as in
> www.google.com)?

In the context of the uneager URL-at-point function (which, as Stefan has
said, should not replace the current behavior of (thing-at-point 'url)):

If we think it's not a URL, we return nil.  Otherwise, we prepend
"http://"; (customizable) if there's no scheme present and it doesn't look
like an email address (to which "mailto:"; should be prepended, of course,
to make it a URL).  On a somewhat-related note, such things as "www." and
".com" should in no circumstances be added; it is a misfeature of (many)
Web browsers that they conflate keyword searches with the DNS.

Davis

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