id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,version,resolution,keywords,cc
142,Special handling of URLs in documentation,KrzysztofSkrzetnicki,SimonHengel,"It is hard to get URLs like http://example.com right in Haddock documentation. As a result a lot of documentation contain malformed addresses. For example see: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/random-shuffle-0.0.2

It reads: ""Random shuffle implementation, on immutable lists. Based on `perfect shuffle' implementation by Oleg Kiselyov, available on http:okmij.orgftpHaskell/perfect-shuffle.txt""

Because '/' conflicts with the syntax reserved for other purposes the link is rendered as ""http:okmij.orgftpHaskell/perfect-shuffle.txt"". It is easy, but cumbersome, to recreate the original link. One can also go to .cabal file, which includes this description in this form:
{{{
description:
    Random shuffle implementation, on immutable lists.

    Based on `perfect shuffle' implementation by Oleg Kiselyov,
    available on http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/perfect-shuffle.txt
}}}

My proposition is to treat urls in special way: instead of normal processing url should yield a normal link.

I belive that only http://, https:// and ftp:// should need such special handling, so all in all this should be fairly easy to implement.",enhancement,closed,minor,,2.6.0,wontfix,,