Re: on matching more naked URLs in articles

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

>> Before I waste time on it: has anyone looked into changing
>> gnus-button-url-regexp into matching naked URLs without a protocol
>> field?  Ie. URLs like dodrt.dod.no, vvv.no, imdb.com etc.

> I think that would be a good idea, and perhaps just matching stuff
> that consists of a-z with two (or more) dots in between would do the
> trick?  (Or one dot if it ends in "com".)

Maybe.  I guess most published URLs these days doesn't have a
directory part.  I think maybe we also need A-Z and "-" and 0-9 to
catch many of these.

>> And is there a way to getting the changed gnus-button-url-regexp into
>> gnus-button-alist without restarting Gnus?

> Well -- you can just use `setq'.  :-)

I tried that, but when I looked at the variable it seemed to hold the
old value.