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27.0.50; ERC does not match or highlight nick surrounded by parens

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Message #16 received at 38257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Amin Bandali <bandali <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38257: Acknowledgement (27.0.50; ERC does not match or
 highlight nick surrounded by parens)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:03:17 +0100

Amin Bandali <bandali <at> gnu.org> writes:

> * lisp/erc/erc-{button,match}.el (erc-{button,match}-syntax-table):
> Omit (, ), and '; as they're not valid nick characters, per RFC 2812
> section 2.3.1.  This enables correct matching/highlighting of nicks
> when they’re surrounded by parens, like (nick), and when adjacent to
> an apostrophy, like nick's.

I haven't tried this patch, but doesn't this syntax table apply to all
buttons in erc, including URLs?  So an URL like
http://foo.bar/zot'foo would no longer be recognised properly?  (I'm not
sure that it should, to be honest...)

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