Re: how to obtain a url and store it

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ someusernamehere <someusernamehere@gmail.com>:

> Harald Hanche-Olsen escreveu:
>> > Hey, how I can get an url which is in some place in a paragraph and
>> > store it in a local var?
>>
>> You could start by looking at thing-at-point.
>
> yeah, but, how move the point where the url is in the paragraph?

Search for some regexp that will match the start of an URL?
Something along the lines of

  \(https?\|ftp\|mailto\|gopher\|git\):

Extend with any protocol names you wish to cover.
(Gee, I haven't seen a gopher server in ages.  Do they still exist?)

Perhaps you could just search for [a-z]: and then go to the match and
try thing-at-point to see if it will recognize it as an url or not.

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