Re: Adding email address support to thingatpt.el.

[Andreas Roehler]

>   
> > AFAIU rfc2822, several more chars are allowed to be
> > part of an email-adress than regexp honours now:
> >     
>
> It's tough to know what to include.  Many characters that technically
> could be part of an email address are rarely used in practice, and
> instead appear much more often as delimiters (in certain contexts).
> So if thingatpt.el is to Do The Right Thing most often for the user,
> it probably can't comply precisely with the RFC.
>
>   

If Emacs is more restrictive than RFC2822, errors and
bug-reports are ahead.

BTW: Does RFC2822 indeed require at least two chars before
the `@'? I'm not sure about it, but can't see that.

So the core of my regexp, taking the ranges from RFC, is this:

address@hidden


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Andreas Roehler