element-hq / element-hq/element-android
Feature request: support for alternative url schemes
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Description
There are a lots of protocols and URL schemes and a lot of them may appear in the future. Some of the less often used and recognized are: gemini, gopher, finger, ftps, sftp, ssh, tel. These are not recognized by Element and so does not turn into highlighted, clickable links when appeared in chat.
I suggest to instead of adding support for more link types, treat all strings matching regex like `[-\w]+://\S+` as an URL, because it's hard to track all that niche URL schemes.
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