ffap versus url with "*" [patch]

[Kevin Ryde]

I noticed with point at the start of a line like the following, M-x
ffap doesn't recognise the "*" in the url,

http://au.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/reuterau/*http://au.biz.yahoo.com/041222/19/2k95.html

it highlights and prompts with only

    http://au.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/reuterau/

"*" is uncommon, but valid.  This example is a link in a yahoo rss
feed.  The patch below adds "*" to the char matching.


Also legal but not matched are "!'()", but I'm not sure if it's a good
idea to have those.  They'd be pretty unusual, and maybe should be
treated as more likely to be surrounding punctuation, ie. left as they
are.


2004-12-22  Kevin Ryde  <address@hidden>

        * ffap.el (ffap-string-at-point-mode-alist): Add "*" to url chars,
        it can appear unencoded and has been seen from yahoo.

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