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

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:03:41 -0400

Dave Abrahams <[email-masked]> writes:

> 1. Put this in an empty buffer:
>
>     (http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/abi-eh.html)
>
> 2. `M-x browse-url RET'
>
> Note that the default in the minibuffer includes the final `)'.  I don't
> think it should.

Since many URLs contain parentheses, I'm not sure there is a sane way to
handle this.  If you want parentheses to delimit URLs, try changing the
variable thing-at-point-url-regexp in thingatpt.el.