Bug 17399 – gnome-terminal incorrect URL highlighting

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Bug 17399 - gnome-terminal incorrect URL highlighting

Summary:	gnome-terminal incorrect URL highlighting

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	gnome-core (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Havoc Pennington
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Reported:	2000-09-10 17:23 EDT by mal
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-09-11 15:49:19 EDT
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Description mal 2000-09-10 17:23:13 EDT

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 2000-09-10 23:40:30 EDT

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 15:49:17 EDT

A plain rightclick doesn't always work, but ctrl+rightclick does.

Comment 3 Elliot Lee 2001-01-31 20:02:28 EST

This has since been fixed.

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