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

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Message #38 received at 67600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 67600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67600: [PATCH] Add dashes to 'thing-at-point-email-regexp'
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:41:32 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
>> Cc: 67600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 07:21:18 +0000
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
>> >> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2023 12:52:04 +0000
>> >> 
>> >> I noticed this recently when trying to extract a link to an mailing list
>> >> of mine hosted on SourceHut.
>> >
>> > Looks like you are adding slashes, not dashes?
>> 
>> Of course, my bad:
>
> 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?

One idea might be to just add slashes to the user name part of the
address, which would suffice to solve the issue I was having.

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