Re: Why is goto-address-mode not enabled by default everywhere?

[Po Lu]

emacsq <laszlomail@protonmail.com> writes:

> BTW, I see no great harm in highlighting this. It indicates that it's
> an url and helps to see the code constructs an url, and if someone
> browses C code and sees sprintf then he obviously knows what sprintf
> does, so he'll know the url won't work without parameter substitution
> anyway.
>
> If the link is clicked then you get a 404 page for a non existent
> color, so it's just a broken link, nothing tragic.

It is fontified in the link face, which makes the fontification of the
string containing it very confusing.

And why is it necessary to shove this confusing, incorrect semantic
information into the face of the user?