Bug 17399

Summary: gnome-terminal incorrect URL highlighting
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: mal
Component: gnome-coreAssignee: Havoc Pennington <hp>
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Description mal 2000-09-10 21:23:13 UTC 
gnome-terminal highlight an URL (shown in the terminal as underlined text).
The problem is that it does not do this correctly
in case URL has % symbol in it.
If you type in prompt
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=aaa
and move mouse to this line the entire URL will be highlighted
but if you type
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=aaa%60&a=b&c=d
the symbols after % are just ignored, what is incorrect.
% is a standard way to encode symbols in URL.

Another thing, the URL is shown as it possible to click on it,
but if I click nothing happens.
Should a web browser be started?
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2000-09-11 03:40:30 UTC 
Probably we just need to add % to the regular expression used to parse URLs in
gnome-terminal.c. You should be able to right-click on a URL to open it.
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-09-11 19:49:17 UTC 
A plain rightclick doesn't always work, but ctrl+rightclick does.
Comment 3 Elliot Lee 2001-02-01 01:02:28 UTC 
This has since been fixed.