From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30914 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: The .. rule Date: 14 May 2000 15:33:25 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200005130907.LAA23394@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167386 11055 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:29:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4497ED051F for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 15:33:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB00882; Sun, 14 May 2000 14:33:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 14 May 2000 14:33:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14136 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 14:33:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mesquite.charcoal.com (MESQUITE.SLIP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.207.11]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A9FD051F for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 15:33:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by mesquite.charcoal.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA25292; Sun, 14 May 2000 15:33:25 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "5(T0tZd{6}pd~YzBG8O/*EW,.]6]@`m^e;fv65W^Y&=d"M\1H}>T~4_.kcDD.O~y3k)a6h R;Nmi>9|>Nm${2IpM0^RcUEa\jcq?KOP)C&~x51l~zCHTulL^_T|u0I^kB'z@]{`2YjQu In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "14 May 2000 21:25:09 +0200" Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.2 (Iris) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30914 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30914 Steinar Bang writes: > Somehow I never pick the wrong non-URL to click. > And should I do so, what's the big deal? Because the bold-facing of URLs draws the eye. That's part of what it's intended for. If it weren't in bold type, you wouldn't know it's there, so you wouldn't know you could click on it. And that, in turn, is what's really wrong: Excessive (and pointless) bold text on the screen makes for atrociously unreadable text overall. When I read messages in xemacs-beta, and in just one message see 2 filenames and 4 XEmacs version numbers all in bold type, plus the usual selection of mis-clickable mail addresses and news host references, it becomes more and more painful to read the actual content, my eye being dragged around willy-nilly by useless fontification. It seems pretty clear to me that naked URL buttonizing is liked by only a few. I for one would appreciate it if the previous, non-naked default regexp were reinstated, and some doc comments were given on how to customize the regexp for those who really want a 90+% false positive rate.