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28.2; erc-button-url-regexp does not recognise gophers://

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Troels Henriksen <athas <at> sigkill.dk>
Cc: 65627-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65627: 28.2;
 erc-button-url-regexp does not recognise gophers://
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 21:01:52 +0200

Version: 29.2

> The regex in
>
>   browse-url-button-regexp
>
> does not recognise the gophers:// protocol.  Similarly to https://,
> gophers:// is an encrypted variant of the venerable Gopher protocol.
> The gophers protocol is supported in curl and other programs that build
> on libcurl, and while I can customize `browse-url-button-regexp` myself,
> I think it would be useful for all Emacs users if Emacs recognised
> gophers:// directly.
>
> A fix is simple: just add 's?' after 'gopher' in the regexp.

Thanks for the bug report.

I see that it is supported by libcurl, here: https://curl.se/libcurl/
There is also FTPS, which we don't have in our regexp.

So I've now fixed this on the master branch (commit 9e2d5a013c9), and
I'm closing this bug.

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