Dear all, I came across a minor case of misbehaviour when trying to open html links in man pages.
$ man 7 roff has a section "SEE ALSO" with a number of links to Internet sites. The first link under "History of Unix Manpages" ⟨http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html⟩ is ready for opening in the browser once the mouse hovers over it but cannot be opened (404 file not found) because the closing parenthesis ")" erroneously makes its way into the link. See also the automated highlighting (on my terminal via underlining). The underlined region includes the closing parenthesis (but not the opening parenthesis). However, the next link (http://www.troff.org) is activated correctly. It seems to be that URLs ending in top-level domains are recognized correctly whereas URS with a page element (.../history.html in the first example) are not recognized correctly. Is this an issue of the terminal (I use lxterminal 0.4.0) of of the formatting process chain? The manpage source code is structurally identical in both cases: .\" on-screen URL highlighting includes closing parenthesis, Ctrl+Left Click produces wrong URL (closing with ")") .UR http://\:manpages.bsd.lv/\:history.html .\" on-screen URL highlighting does not include closing parenthesis, Ctrl+Left Click produces correct URL .UR http://\:www.troff.org Best regards, Oliver. PS: This machine runs groff 1.22.4, please forgive me if this is already fixed in the upcoming 1.23.0 release. -- Dr. Oliver Corff Mail: oliver.co...@email.de
