History for DefaultUrlInterpretation

??changed:
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URLs, when placed on their own in a structured text document, should become URL's with themselves as the link text.  I.e.

http://foo.com

becomes

&lt;a href="http://foo.com"&gt;http://foo.com&lt;/a&gt;

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gvanrossum (Mar 29, 2001 6:07 pm; Comment #1)  --
 Of course.  This appears already implemented in ST classic, except that it gets confused by some markup following an URL (as in the example given here).
 
 Can someone explain why the ';' of the second '&lt;' in the example is rendered, while the other ';'s aren't rendered?

simon (Jul 11, 2001 6:40 pm; Comment #4)  --
 Yes. It's one of those weird interactions of rules you mentioned
 on another page. Here, I believe 
 
  1. ST classic ignores the bare url
 
  2. zwiki recognizes and links the url up to and including the &amp;lt
 
  3. the ; is left over
 
 To get the desired result we could do something like add a space - 

 &lt;a href="http://foo.com"&gt;http://foo.com &lt;/a&gt;

 but this is probably a case for ST's :: operator, which 
 (together with a recent version of zwiki) quotes *everything*::

   <a href="http://foo.com">http://foo.com</a>

 One gets used to diagnosing these rule quirks and working around them.
 I'm not sure how prevent them completely without losing the convenience.