Hi Alex, I just wanted to issue a point of self-correction since I pretty badly misstated something.
At 2022-02-08T08:53:17+1100, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > And XFCE terminal highlights as a hyperlink _only_ the part that is
> > on the first line (i.e., up to 'process/'). The second part (i.e.,
> > 'coding'...) isn't highlighted, and most importantly, isnt' part of
> > the hyperlink.
>
> You might say that `UR` is "generous in what it accepts". If it has
> no argument, it attempts to create a hyperlink out of the link text.
I was thinking about this completely backwards, possibly confused by the
mangling that MUAs and web-based list archives do to long lines of plain
text.
> It doesn't do a very good job.
UR and MT could use more argument validation, but the thing that's
screwing up hyperlinks here is, as noted, the terminal emulator.
An empty argument to `UR` (whether by omission, or explicitly) gets
passed to the output device as...an empty URL.
$ ./build/test-groff -Thtml -rU1 -man EXPERIMENTS/empty-UR.man
[...]
<p><a href="">this is supposedly hyperlinked text</a></p>
[...]
$ ./build/test-groff -Z -Tutf8 -rU1 -man EXPERIMENTS/empty-UR.man
[...]
H0
x X tty: link
tthis
wh24
tis
wh24
tsupposedly
wh24
thyperlinked
wh24
ttext
V120
H840
x X tty: link
n40 0
[...]
Regards,
Branden
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