On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 02:02:17PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-02-20 12:09, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > > On 20 Feb 2020, at 10:53, Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 20 Feb 2020, at 10:15, Peter Eisentraut
> > > > <[email protected]> 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.
> >
> > RFC3986 discuss this in <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-C>,
> > with
> > the content mostly carried over from RFC2396 appendix E.
>
> I think we weren't going to get any more insights here, so I have committed
> it as is.
Some new feedback. I find this output confusing since there is a colon
before the <>:
Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
PostgreSQL home page: <https://www.postgresql.org/>
Does this look better (no colon)?
Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
PostgreSQL home page <https://www.postgresql.org/>
or this (colon, no <>)?
Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
PostgreSQL home page: https://www.postgresql.org/
or maybe this?
Report bugs: [email protected]
PostgreSQL home page: https://www.postgresql.org/
or this?
Report bugs <[email protected]>
PostgreSQL home page <https://www.postgresql.org/>
I actually have never seen URLs in <>, only email addresses. I think
using <> for URLs and emails is confusing because they usually have
different actions, unless we want to add mailto:
Report bugs <mailto:[email protected]>
PostgreSQL home page <https://www.postgresql.org/>
or
Report bugs mailto:[email protected]
PostgreSQL home page https://www.postgresql.org/
I kind of prefer the last one since the can both be pasted directly into
a browser.
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