VM's url matching is too greedy

[skip at pobox.com]

I can't figure out where it comes into play, but VM's notion of the extent
of a URL is too greedy.  In the emails they send out, discussion forums
often embed URLs in some [url]...[/url] tags, e.g.:

    [url]http://www.google.com/[/url]

VM highlights the trailing "[/url]" as part of the URL, so it sends too much
to your browser if you click the highlighted text.  I'm using VM 7.17 in
XEmacs 21.5.28.  I've never seen a situation where "[" appears unencoded in
a URL, so even if it's valid to leave it unencoded I think you'd have fewer
problems if you kept it out of the match set when looking for the end of the
URL.

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Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/