--- rxvt-unicode/src/perl/selection	2006/01/03 21:08:39	1.9
+++ rxvt-unicode/src/perl/selection	2006/01/05 01:07:31	1.12
@@ -10,13 +10,16 @@
 }
 
 my @patterns = (
-   # urls
-   qr{ ([a-z0-9.+\-]+://[ab-zA-Z0-9\-\@;\/?:&=%\$_.+!*\x27(),]+) }x,
+   # urls, just a heuristic
+   qr{(
+      (?:https?|ftp|news|mailto|file)://[ab-zA-Z0-9\-\@;\/?:&=%\$_.+!*\x27(),~]+
+      [ab-zA-Z0-9\-\@;\/?:&=%\$_+!*\x27(),~]   # do not include a trailing dot, its wrong too often
+   )}x,
 
    # shell-like argument quoting
-   qr{\G\s*(
+   qr{\G [\ \t|&;<>()] *(
       (?:
-         [^"'\\ \t]+
+         [^\\"'\ \t|&;<>()]+
          | \\.
          | " ([^\\"]+ | \\. )* "
          | ' [^']* '