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Re: Commas in URLs (was FFAP)


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Commas in URLs (was FFAP)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:17:46 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> How about this case:
>
> To get to my house, click on http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=baden,on, then
> click on "Directions".
>
> The final comma should *not* be included.  Nor should a final period,
> although of course embedded periods are typical for URLs.
>
> Appendix E of RFC 2396 says URLs should be "quoted" or <quoted> when
> used within plaintext, and then commas should follow closing-quotes, but
> this is often not done.

I see in Gnus the final comma is not included to the highlighted URL
due to `gnus-button-url-regexp'.  It seems that URL matching in Gnus
is the most standard-compliant.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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