Comment 2 for bug 28649

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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote : Re: [Bug 28649] Malone word-wraps URLs when sending out emails

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:08:31AM -0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> If a URL appears in this email that is longer than $length character
> (seen with 75) then the URL is word-wrapped, making it inconvient and
> hard to click on the link, eg:
>
> http://www.paul.sladen.org/ubuntu/bugs/acpi-
> support_0.50-0ubuntu1.debdiff
>
> The word-wrapping algorithm should make an exception for "long words"
> where the word starts with "(f|ht)tps?:"

Yes, it should. Long words are usually not wrapped, but they seem to be
wrapped if they contain a '-'. I'll take a look at how to fix it.

    status confirmed
    assignee bjornt