[TAG] Points of style

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:31:47AM -0400, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> > But I still hate <http://...> format.
> 
> Ack - I've been using that format for ages myself. Moreover, it's a very
> common usage; even if I broke the habit, we'd still get'em from
> elsewhere. Besides, the Robustness Principle says that it's up to _us_
> to handle this sort of thing from our end, and I agree. Is it a matter
> of parsing? If so, I can surely make up a regex that would happily grab
> these things; just let me know.

It's actually some flavor of informal standard, IIRC.  Amusingly
enough, the URL catcher regex in Mutt screws it up as well:
closing-angle-bracket and closing-paren both show up as highlighted;
clearly it thinks they're part of the URL -- or at least, my copy
does; I suppose the possiblilty exists I screwed around with that Way
Back When.

Cheers,
-- jra
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