URL woes that never end

URL woes that never end

[Rudolf Adamkovič]

Greetings!

I lamented a while ago about URL handling in Org. To provide a concrete example, below is a shell script that Org does not export correctly to HTML. More specifically, Org considers the script to be a URL. Further, and amazingly, even if I change “see <URL>.” to “see <URL> to learn more”, Org *still* does not parse the URL correctly, even with a valid URL per RFC *and* surrounding angle brackets (<>) *and* spaces on both sides.

#+begin_src shell :tangle fetchmail-retry.sh :shebang #!/usr/bin/env sh
# fetchmail-retry.sh -- fetchmail with retry
#
# Author: Rudolf Adamkovič <salutis@me.com>
# Version: 1.0
#
# This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
# Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at
# your option) any later version.
#
# For more information, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#

RETRY=0
RETRY_MAX=10

RETURN_OK=0
RETURN_NO_MAIL=1

while [ $RETRY -le $RETRY_MAX ]
do
    fetchmail "$@"
    RETURN=$?

    [ $RETURN -eq $RETURN_OK ] && exit $RETURN
    [ $RETURN -eq $RETURN_NO_MAIL ] && exit $RETURN

    RETRY=$((RETRY+1))
    echo Retry \#$RETRY:
done

echo Failed after $RETRY_MAX retries. >&2
exit $RETURN
#+end_src

--
Logic is a science of the necessary laws of thought, without which no employment of the understanding and the reason takes place. -- Immanuel Kant, 1785

Rudolf Adamkovič <salutis@me.com>
Studenohorská 25
84103 Bratislava
Slovakia

[he/him]

Re: URL woes that never end

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Rudolf Adamkovič <salutis@me.com> writes:

> I lamented a while ago about URL handling in Org. To provide
> a concrete example, below is a shell script that Org does not export
> correctly to HTML. More specifically, Org considers the script to be
> a URL. Further, and amazingly, even if I change “see <URL>.” to “see
> <URL> to learn more”, Org *still* does not parse the URL correctly,
> even with a valid URL per RFC *and* surrounding angle brackets (<>)
> *and* spaces on both sides.

This seems to be an issue in htmlize package, not Org. Org does not
parse anything in a source block.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou