Re: Supplying missing entries for Configure.help, part 3

[Eric S. Raymond]

Peter Kjellerstedt <[e-mail]>:
> Would it not be better to teach your URL extractor (as I guess that
> is the reason for this patch) what a URL followed by a period and a
> space looks like. Even though they are legal URLs, I think we can
> safely assume the writer intended the period to end the sentence and
> not be part of the URL. The same goes for URLs followed by other
> characters like comma, colon and so on.

Of course it would be.  But I'm not yet sure it's practical; CML2's tokenizing
is actually being done by the Tk text widget and I have yet to discover
whether it can be told to discard the trailing period.

Note however that I didn't introduce these spaces for CML2 but to conform a
few exceptions to practice in the CML1 file.  My own choice would be to wrap
URLs and relative filenames in <> and treat those as delimeters, but I didn't
want to change the existing convention (yet).
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