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here's an idea for a `W' command maybe someone would be inclined to
implement.

for certain mail user agents (like ms outlook), if the user types a
long url into a message they are composing, as the agent sends the
message, the agent will graciously insert a newline into the url
rendering the url unclickable by the recipients.  i'm sure you've
all seen messages containing text like this:

bla bla bla at
http://foo.bar.com/baz/some/really/long/path/la/dee/da/dum/dee/ind
ex.html and bla bla bla.

(noting the newline between "ind" and "ex" in this case).

i think this url splitting would be reasonably easy to detect
automatically reliably because the agents seem to leave the
beginning of the url alone on a line (with no leading or trailing
whitespace), and the end of the url is at the beginning of the next
line (with no leading whitespace).  in other words, the W command
might be basically this:

 s%^((https?|ftp)://\S+)\n(\S+)%$1$3%g;

any takers?

m.