Re: commas in URLs?

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Piotr Zielinski wrote:

> Just to to add one vote for including commas in the urls by default
> (at least in some cases); I often copy long links directly from the
> browser and have this problem quite often.
>
>>>> So URLs should just exclude commas that are followed by a  
>>>> whitespace
>>>> or a line break, not all commas - right?
>>
>>> Yes, but this is harder to do with a regexp.  I wish Emacs had look-
>>> ahead assertions like perl.
>
> What about saying that a url cannot end with a comma, but can contain
> commas?  Something like [a-z,]*[a-z] (this is a big big  
> simplication!).

Excellent suggestion, yes, this works.  Sometimes there are good ways to
work around, and in this case this works perfectly.  Thanks!

- Carsten