[TxMt] Re: Better URL detection pattern

[Juande Santander Vela]

Thanks for the answers, Allan!

What I wanted to do is to know where to modify it by myself, and you already answered that.

I am not directly familiar with git, but I am used to svn and cvs, so it should not be a problem.

I will have a look at how to merge both expressions, so that complex URLs with recognized protocols (meaning URLs with parentheses, and with Unicode, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film), or http://➡.ws/䨹). Protocols for operating system or application URLs, like itms, message, skype, might also be interesting to have.

Thanks again!

El 28/07/2010, a las 11:25, Allan Odgaard escribió:

> On 28 Jul 2010, at 10:58, Juande Santander Vela wrote:
> 
>> I do not now if regular expressions are involved in the way TextMate detects URLs in text, but I'd gather they do [...]
> 
> Indeed they are: http://manual.macromates.com/en/language_grammars
> 
>> [...] The only problem I find with it is that the references to LaTeX parts, sections, chapters, etc., built from the LaTeX templates would be matched as well.
> 
> I had a look at his earlier pattern(s) and I think my conclusion was also, that we would just get underlining for more false positives. What we presently use (in the Text grammar) is this rule:
> 
> { name = 'markup.underline.link.text';
>   match = '(?x)
>     ( (https?|s?ftp|ftps|file|smb|afp|nfs|(x-)?man|gopher|txmt)://|mailto:)
>     [-:@a-zA-Z0-9_.,~%+/?=&#]+(?<![.,?:])
>   ';
> },
> 
> It’s fairly simple compared to Gruber’s pattern, but it has worked quite well for me.
> 
>> Can this be built into TextMate, or where should I change if I wanted it just for personal use?
> 
> Do you want this for text files? If so, you should edit the Text grammar in the Text bundle. See the above link to language grammars.
> 
> Of course if it works well we can put it in the default bundle — we prefer receiving pull requests for the bundle in question via GitHub (for the text bundle that is http://github.com/textmate/text.tmbundle) — don’t know if you are familiar with Git?


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Juande Santander Vela
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Archive Department, Data Management & Operations Division
European Southern Observatory (Germany)

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