Yes, I spend too much time tweaking PopClip

I made a few changes and additions to my PopClip extensions early this morning. The GitHub repo is current and the project page is updated.

First, I updated the OpenURLS extension to better handle finding urls without a protocol (www.google.com, no “http://”). It does a pretty decent job of figuring out what’s a link and what’s not. I also added a new feature: hold down Option to fix urls broken by hard-wrapped lines. This was an issue I kept running into on old CocoaDev forums, where the email processor would split a URL in half, making it unclickable. Now I can just higlight both lines, hold down option and click the OpenURLS button to join the halves together before parsing.

I also duplicated the OpenURLS extension to a CopyURLS extension, which does the exact same thing (with the Option add-on), but puts the detected urls in your clipboard instead of opening them. A plain list, separated by newlines, no Markdown stuff.

Lastly, I can’t remember who suggested this, but it sounded like fun to create a regex for. It’s called “FixPoorlyObscuredEmails,” and it takes “dan AT danssite DOT com” and turns it into dan@danssite.com. It handles a dot in the middle of the username, and multiple dots in the server address. As a bonus feature, if you hold down Option, it will create a new email in your default application for all detected addresses. This works even in fields you can’t edit (e.g. in a Tweet), so you can create emails quickly from social applications and the like¹.

That’s all for now. If you’re a PopClip user, check out the full details for the package on the project page. You won’t regret it.