Hi Branden, On 1/25/22 17:12, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi, Alex, > > Quite bizarrely, I did not get this message in my inbox, nor even in my > spam folder. Thanks, GMail! :-| > > At 2022-01-24T22:32:13+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> Some wish. For the following code: >> >> [ >> .MT alx.manpa...@gmail.com >> Alejandro Colomar >> .ME . >> ] >> >> The produced html output is >> >> <a href="mailto:alx.manpa...@gmail.com";>Alejandro >> Colomar</a> >> >> The visual output shows the full name, but when you want to send an >> email, that is discarded. It would be nicer, IMHO, to have the >> following code: >> >> <a href="mailto:Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpa...@gmail.com>">Alejandro >> Colomar</a> >> >> Any thoughts? > > My main question about this is, is it permitted by RFC 6068? > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6068#page-3 > > My quick glance over the meaning of an "addr-spec" suggests that it is > not, but I have not read this standardese in depth.
It seems that there was once an RFC that supported the widely used mailto scheme with proper names, but was obsoleted (why?!). <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8147805/the-mailto-setting-a-proper-name-on-the-recipient> > > If it's standards-complaint and can be widely expected to work, that > helps, but then we might need an additional argument for the MT macro to > specify or suppress the addition you're proposing. So I guess that it's then a matter of supporting a (IMO, useful) obsoleted standard or not. I guess this idiom can be expected to work, since most programs (or at least those that I use) that understand mailto understand it. > > For instance, if someone clicked such a link from a man page that > editorialized as follows... > > .SH Bugs > Hyphens, minuses, dashes, horizontal arrow extensions, and open doors in > vertical walls in NetHack are all the same to us, but try telling that I played NetHack (glhack) just now for the first time. It was very entertaining, and very frustrating (ed(1) level of frustration) at the beginning. Nice game, and nice doors :) > to > .MT groff@gnu.org > the jackasses who maintain groff > .ME . > > ...it could lead to unintentional entertainment. :p > > Regards, > Branden -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
