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: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 67600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67600: [PATCH] Add dashes to 'thing-at-point-email-regexp'
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:38:31 +0200

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
> Cc: 67600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.

Can you show a patch, so we could make sure we are on the same page?

Thanks.

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