Subject: Re: bug#9153: 23.3; browse-url too greedy

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:18:50 +0200

Chong Yidong <[email-masked]> writes:

>> They usually are, so it should be possible to handle (stuff like this
>        ^^^^^^^
>
> So trying to "handle" this is probably a good way to generate bugs.

Recognising URLs in free text is all heuristics.

URLs like this "http://emacs.org)" are exceedingly rare, while
"http://wikipedia.org/thing(something)" are not uncommon.  I fail to see
how catering to the more common case is akin to "generating bugs".

If you're against using heuristics, then ffap should be removed from
Emacs altogether.

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