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Description of problem: When I Ctrl-click a link in gnome-terminal, it opens in the default browser. However, if the link is in an XML tag, the first character of the closing tag "<" is always included in the hyperlink when it is highlighted (underlined) and clicked. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.31.3-11.el6_6.x86_64 (affects every version of RHEL/CentOS/Fedora I've tried, but this is what's on my current system) How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Paste: "<url>https://bugzilla.redhat.com</url>" into gnome-terminal 2. Ctrl+click on the link Actual results: Browser tries to open "https://bugzilla.redhat.com<" Expected results: Browser should open "https://bugzilla.redhat.com" Additional info: This bug has been irritating me for many RHEL and Fedora releases. While angle brackets can be used to delimit a URI (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt), it's generally unsafe to use without urlencoding (http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm), so it should never be seen as part of the URL itself. Even if it were seen in a valid URL, I think the use-case of Ctrl+clicking from XML is a much more reasonable use case to support, because it is much more likely users will want to click on URLs inside XML than to click on a URL that actually happens to have a less-than sign in it. Further, even if it were expected behavior to include the less-than character as part of the URL, the very next characters ('/url>' in my example) would also be valid, but are clearly not included in the URL... so clearly, this is a bug.
There are many more problems with URL detection. Upstream fix is at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756038. No easy way and no simple patch to backport to old branches exists.
I've backported the fix to the 3-18 branch (and hopefully applies cleanly to older ones as well): https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/commit/?h=gnome-3-18&id=3bd692f
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