Bug 21451

Summary:	Overly eager url highlighting in gnome-terminal
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ed McKenzie <eem12>
Component:	gnome-core	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Dale Lovelace <dale>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	ddumas, dr
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Description Ed McKenzie 2000-11-28 22:50:58 UTC

gnome-terminal thinks any word beginning with ftp is a url, even if there
isn't a :// following it. It correctly ignores http if it's not followed by
said symbols.

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2001-02-02 01:09:53 UTC

It is assuming that someone typing 'ftp12.netscape.com' wants to go to that FTP
site. The highlighting does no harm unless you do lots of explicit clicking, and
many people will find this useful, so NOTABUG