Feature request: highlight phone numbers and urls

[mhspace]

and on tap do:

• for phone numbers — launch dialer with number (ACTION_DIAL, "tel:+1234")
  • a problem here: phone numbers usually start with "+", but in todo.txt tags do. Simple solution: use "tel:" field, same prefix as in intent for launching dialer. (example: Call John Wayne tel:+1234567 @phone)
• for url — launch browser (ACTION_VIEW)

[mpcjanssen]

Simpletask already parse numbers and urls. If you select a task with a number or URL, the menu contains items to dial or browse. Highlighting requires the view widget to change which interacts badly with other gestures. I initially tried this and it doesn't work well. Because of the challenge of parsing phone numbers for now only string of digits without space are recognised. Thus is something the tel: approach could fix. Let me think about that.

[smichel17]

Is this worth implementing? Could you get the same mileage out of allowing the user to define a custom phone number format in settings?

I wouldn't add UI support past recognition of the format as a telephone number, but adding recognition seems reasonable.