> On 20 Feb 2020, at 10:15, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-02-13 14:24, Greg Stark wrote:
>> Sounds like a fine idea. But personally I would prefer it without the <> around the it, just a url on a line by
itself.I think it would be clearer, look cleaner, and be easier to select to copy/paste elsewhere.
>
> I'm on the fence about this one, but I like the delimiters because it would also work consistently if we put a URL
intorunning text where it might be immediately adjacent to other characters. So I was actually going for easier to
copy/pastehere, but perhaps in other environments it's not easier?
For URLs completely on their own, not using <> makes sense. Copy pasting <url>
into the location bar of Safari makes it load the url, but Firefox and Chrome
turn it into a search engine query (no idea about Windows browsers).
For URLs in running text it's not uncommon to have <> around the URL for the
very reason you mention. Looking at --help and manpages from random open
source tools there seems to be roughly a 50/50 split on using <> or not.
cheers ./daniel