GNU bug report logs - #67600
[PATCH] Add dashes to 'thing-at-point-email-regexp'

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
Cc: philipk <at> posteo.net, 67600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67600: [PATCH] Add dashes to 'thing-at-point-email-regexp'
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:27:13 +0200

> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>,  67600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:51:32 +0530
> 
> [Tuesday December 12, 2023] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Thanks.
> >
> > My bother here is that this could cause false positives whereby
> > thing-at-point would recognize file names with slashes as email
> > addresses.  Because otherwise I don't understand why the slash was
> > omitted in the first place.  Can we somehow make sure this won't
> > happen?
> 
> I am running Emacs with the same change before Philip created this bug
> report and so far I haven't had false positives for email addresses
> because files with a @ in its name is rare.  In practise, I think this
> patch is harmless in that regard.

Remote files that have user <at> host in their names do have that
character.

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