Re: [Orgmode] URLs are not always linked properly

[William Henney]

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.

Cheers

Will


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