Re: [Orgmode] URLs are not always linked properly

[Carsten Dominik]

On Dec 2, 2009, at 4:19 AM, William Henney wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Carsten Dominik
> <address@hidden> 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 the
> > > 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.   Please  
> > surround such
> > 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.

Yes, this one looks good.  I am now using part of this
expression (but in Org-mode we insist on a protocol like "http:").

This change *might* break matching in XEmacs, I have tried to make
it work, but please, XEmacs users, let me know if there are problems.

Thanks Will!

- Carsten

> Cheers
>
> Will
>
>
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>
>  Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
>  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia