bug#572: marked as done (thing-at-point 'url gets confused if url has paren)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #572,
regarding thing-at-point 'url gets confused if url has paren
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> thing-at-point 'url gets confused if url has paren
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> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:41:38 -0700
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> (thing-at-point 'url) gets confused if the url contains a
> parenthesis such as in
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(programming_language)
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> Note that, according to
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding
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> parenthesis in uri do not necessarily needs to be percent encoded,  
> depending on the context the uri is used. Quote: «When a character  
> from the reserved set (a "reserved character") has special meaning (a  
> "reserved purpose") in a certain context, and a URI scheme says that  
> it is necessary to use that character for some other purpose, then  
> the character must be percent-encoded.»
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> But anyhow, practically speaking, often uri will contain parens. e.g.  
> Wikipedia has lots of article with url containing paren, and in  
> browser they are shown as paren, and this is often copied and pasted  
> as is to editors.
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> the above should be the complete bug description.
> The following are supplementary to this bug report.
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> Here's a sample code
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> (defun wrap-url ()
>   "Make the url at cursor point into a html link.
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> If there is a region, use the region as url instead.
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> This function is interface wrapper for `wrap-url-string'.
> See that function for detail."
>   (interactive)
>   (let (bds p1 p2 url)
>     (if (and transient-mark-mode mark-active)
>         (progn
>           (setq p1 (region-beginning))
>           (setq p2 (region-end))
>           )
>       (progn
>         (setq bds (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'url))
>         (setq p1 (car bds))
>         (setq p2 (cdr bds))
>         )
>       )
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>     (setq url (buffer-substring-no-properties p1 p2))
>     (delete-region p1 p2)
>     (goto-char p1)
>     (insert (wrap-url-string url))
>     )
>   )
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> the error from the above code when the cursor is on the following line:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(programming_language)
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> is:
> setq: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil
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> presumably because the boundary p1 or p2 is not a integer or marker.
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> Thanks for the thorough bug report!
> -- 
> Joakim Verona
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