Re: URLs with brackets not recognised

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

    > On 12/05/2021 17:38, Nick Savage wrote:
    >> I can confirm this as a bug.

    >> On 5/12/21 3:32 AM, Colin Baxter wrote:
    >>> 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_Basilica_of_St._John_the_Baptist_(Savannah,_Georgia)

    > I do not think it is a bug. Plain text links detection is a kind
    > of heuristics. It will be always possible to win competition with
    > regexp. Consider it as a limitation requiring some hints from an
    > intelligent user.

    > Do the following links have the same problem?

    > -
    > 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_Basilica_of_St._John_the_Baptist_(Savannah,_Georgia)>
    > -
    > 
[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_Basilica_of_St._John_the_Baptist_(Savannah,_Georgia)]]

    > Support of parenthesis exists, but it is not perfect. Punctuation
    > often should be outside of URL.

Point taken.

On the other hand, there has been a series of posts on emacs-devel asking
how emacs could be made more user-friendly. Perhaps therefore not
requiring a user to consider how to enter a URL might be useful.

Best wishes,