Hi, We have been noticing that Pan’s “http detector” has a slight problem.
When a URL begins with the less–than sign ‘<’, but does *not* end with a greater–than sign ‘>’, the entire balance of the message is being hilited as if it belongs to the URL — including multiple lines and paragraphs etc. This works: <http://www.url.com/> None of this very text is part of the URL. But this causes the bug: <http://www.url.com/ Note there is no ending greater–than sign here and all this text is being “sucked into” the Pan URL detector up until we put the actual ‘>’ there. See? There is a poster frequently seen in the “worldwide” Usenet, that uses text like this in most of her postings. My Pan is always flagging most of her text like this — and yes the Pan “Copy URL” pop-up option also brings it all in, too. (This person goes by the moniker “Isis” and is usually seen in the DVD groups.) I think what we need to do is automatically “end” the URL at the same place(s) that a *non*–<> URL string is doing, i.e. end it at any white-space, CR, LF, etc, even if the balance of the same line contains some “junk” anyway, but surely not including the entire multi-line paragraph etc. I also think we need to be able to “turn off” this kind of “detector” logic, similar to the smileys & bold/italics/etc options we already have in Pan. I usually leave–off these other options, but Pan still shows me clickable URLs anyway. (The special code for MacOSX–style link–forwarding to the intended browser app does work nicely, but I think I’d rather turn it off anyway. ;) ) Can anyone else see what I am seeing, here? _______________________________________________ Pan-devel mailing list Pan-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-devel
