From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Spiers Subject: Re: commas in URLs? Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:22:20 +0000 Message-ID: <20080131182220.GF21213@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> References: <20080130185346.GA21734@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> <20080131144639.GA21213@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> <2BCD353D-11F1-4932-B03B-43382C9537D8@science.uva.nl> <878x25lws8.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Reply-To: Adam Spiers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKe3N-0000ns-4N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:22:25 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKe3L-0000nE-FP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:22:24 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKe3L-0000n7-8y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:22:23 -0500 Received: from mail.beimborn.com ([70.84.38.100]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKe3K-0000ex-Vl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:22:23 -0500 Received: from mail.beimborn.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.beimborn.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.8) with ESMTP id m0VIMLmD028041 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:22:21 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by mail.beimborn.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id m0VIMKPX028033 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:22:20 GMT Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878x25lws8.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: org-mode mailing list On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:39:19PM +0100, Bastien wrote: > Carsten Dominik writes: > >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:43:25AM +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: > >>> Yes, plain links are terminated by (among other) comma. > >>> > >>> Please enclose such links into <...> or [[...]]] > >> > >> Ah, OK thanks! Just curious - what's the reasoning behind excluding > >> commas? > > > > So that you can write > > > > Popular search engines are http://google.com, http://yahoo.com, and > > http://ask.com > > So URLs should just exclude commas that are followed by a whitespace or > a line break, not all commas - right? Hmm, good point! > Anyway, I guess 99% of URLs are enclosed in brackets, Not true here, by a long shot! $ egrep -c 'https?://' */TODO.org work/TODO.org:78 personal/TODO.org:180 $ egrep -c '[<[]https?://' */TODO.org work/TODO.org:8 personal/TODO.org:50 So that's 58 out of 258 enclosed in brackets, which is 22.5%. > so it might not be worth being fussy on this... s/not be// ;-)