Automatic links for mailto:

[Tim Pritlove]

> Aaron VonderHaar <gruen0aermel at gmail.com> wrote on 11/06/04 at 11:21pm:
>
>> Hi, I've just subscribed to the list, so I hope this post is 
>> appropriate.
>>
>> In my use of markdown, I prefer to use <mailto:email at com.com> instead
>> of simply <email at com.com>.  Below is a simple patch to make markdown
>> handle the mailto: format (the plain method still works, though I
>> personally would lobby against it since it's not a real url w/out an
>> uri scheme :).

I second that. In the days of Jabber, other eletronic adresses are 
becoming comming using a @-based naming scheme that are not e-mail 
adresses. So having the option to restrict markdown to only accepting 
mailto: links as mail makes sense.

Greetings
Tim


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