> On 20 Feb 2020, at 10:15, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> > wrote: > > On 2020-02-13 14:24, Greg Stark wrote: >> Sounds like a fine idea. But personally I would prefer it without the <> >> around the it, just a url on a line by itself. I think it would be clearer, >> look cleaner, and be easier to select to copy/paste elsewhere. > > I'm on the fence about this one, but I like the delimiters because it would > also work consistently if we put a URL into running text where it might be > immediately adjacent to other characters. So I was actually going for easier > to copy/paste here, but perhaps in other environments it's not easier?
For URLs completely on their own, not using <> makes sense. Copy pasting <url> into the location bar of Safari makes it load the url, but Firefox and Chrome turn it into a search engine query (no idea about Windows browsers). For URLs in running text it's not uncommon to have <> around the URL for the very reason you mention. Looking at --help and manpages from random open source tools there seems to be roughly a 50/50 split on using <> or not. cheers ./daniel
