Dashes not supported in link names

[tho-gru]

Hi everyone,

Today I worked on user defined links in Notepad++. I recognized the dashes (‘-’ characters) are not supported:

As you can see in my example editWithNpp: gets the underline and edit-WithNpp: does not get the underline. Therefor the second “link” will not work.

Is there a reason for this?

I ask this question because protocols with dashes are handled well by Windows 10.

Debug Information

Notepad++ v8.1   (64-bit)
Build time : Jun 17 2021 - 01:56:07
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : "D:\Daten\Memory.txt"
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) 
OS Version : 2009
OS Build : 19043.1052
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : ComparePlugin.dll DSpellCheck.dll JSMinNPP.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExec.dll NppExport.dll PythonScript.dll XMLTools.dll 

Kind Regards
Thomas

[PeterJones]

@tho-gru ,

It’s probably to do with the regular expression used for matching internally, which might not allow for hyphens in the scheme . I was hoping that setting Preferences > Delimiter > add your character… would allow the - in the scheme, but it doesn’t.

Looks like someone has already requested hyphens (and pluses and dots, to bring into compliance with RFC3986 ) be allowed in issue#9923 .

[PeterJones]

I said above:

in issue#9923 .

I have added my 2¢ into that issue, pointing out the svn+ssh:// protocol which I use at work (and mentioned that @tho-gru was interested in hyphens-in-scheme-names as well). Maybe one of the developers will figure out how to implement the fix.

[tho-gru]

@PeterJones thanks for finding the related issue .