Re: [Orgmode] commas in URLs?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Bastien wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> 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?

Yes, but this is harder to do with a regexp.  I wish Emacs had look- 
ahead assertions like perl.

- Carsten

> Anyway, I guess 99% of URLs are
> enclosed in brackets, so it might not be worth being fussy on this...
>
> --
> Bastien