checkdoc: URLs in docstrings with lisp symbols

[Bill Wohler]

I have the following in a docstring:

  Use the \"make-face\" (http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/make-face)
  script

checkdoc ignores the make-face string but complains that the make-face
bit in the URL should be quoted `'. The Info node (elisp)Documentation
Tips doesn't say how URLs should be treated.

Should I be quoting URLs in docstrings? Given that I usually quote
filenames, that might not be a bad way to go.

  Use the \"make-face\" (\"http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/make-face\";)
  script

The following patch to checkdoc-this-string-valid-engine in checkdoc.el
avoids symbol matches immediately after a / and fixes the error I saw.
Is this OK?

Index: checkdoc.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el,v
retrieving revision 1.51
diff -u -u -r1.51 checkdoc.el
--- checkdoc.el 24 Sep 2005 13:43:59 -0000      1.51
+++ checkdoc.el 27 Oct 2005 22:44:49 -0000
@@ -1802,7 +1803,7 @@
        (let ((found nil) (start (point)) (msg nil) (ms nil))
         (while (and (not msg)
                     (re-search-forward
-                     "[^-([`':a-zA-Z]\\(\\w+[:-]\\(\\w\\|\\s_\\)+\\)[^]']"
+                     "[^-([`':/a-zA-Z]\\(\\w+[:-]\\(\\w\\|\\s_\\)+\\)[^]']"
                      e t))
           (setq ms (match-string 1))
           (save-match-data


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