Re: strange highlightings

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Well, it is obviously silly that 
> 
>         www.foo.bar.com 
>             ***********
> 
> would highlight as above.

This does not appear to happen.  Gnus highlights the whole string.
Hm.  I don't understand that rules at all.

> Or that
> 
>         smtp.foo-bar.com
> 
> would hit as a web adress. I think a more conservative
> 
>         \<www[-a-zA-Z0-9.]*\.[A-Za-z][A-Za-z][A-Za-z]?\>
> 
> would hit most of the intuitively obvious http adresses, yet have very
> few false hits.  I.e. a word that starts with www and ends with dot
> followed by two or three letters.

There are quite a few web addresses which do not have the `www' thing,
cf. http://web.de, or http://quimby.gnus.org/.
And even if, my home page is http://ls6-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/...

But maybe grokking foo.bar.quux.blarfl type strings if `www' occurs in
foo, and requiring `http://' for all others would be a useful
compromise.

OTOH, people can just point at stuff and say M-x browse-url-at-point
RET.  Hm.  Is it possible to put browse-url-at-mouse into the
C-down-mouse-3 menu that occurs in the article buffer?

kai
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