* Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-07 18:10]: > Anyway, my mailer is not smart enough to intuit that the next > line should be glued to the previous, and arguably if it were > smart enough, it would be making unwarranted guesses anyway, > since there's really no way of knowing for sure, apart from > whitespace.
But note that with the right combination of software, this becomes unproblematic. You need: X11 as your windowing system, Firefox as the browser, at minimum. Because when you middle-click into a Firefox window to load the URL from the current selection, Firefox ignores newlines. If you use a terminal mail client, it must be competent and so must be your terminal emulator: both must ensure that the fully selected lines aren’t padded with whitespace on the right. (I use mutt and rxvt-unicode.) It’s a somewhat tall order I guess, but if you happen to be able to meet it, dealing with mangled URLs is painless. _______________________________________________________________ And now for something completely different: In this case you don’t even need to deal with the URL mangling! Just the http://stackoverflow.com/questions/{numeric-id} part is enough for Stack Overflow to bring up the right Q&A. The long human-readable path segment after that is merely for the benefit of humans. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
