diff --git a/terminator b/terminator
index fec4324e..ef54b978 100755
--- a/terminator
+++ b/terminator
@@ -136,12 +136,12 @@ class TerminatorTerm:
     self._vte.add_events (gtk.gdk.ENTER_NOTIFY_MASK)
     self._vte.connect ("enter_notify_event", self.on_vte_notify_enter)
 
-    self.matches['full_uri'] = self._vte.match_add ('''\<(news:|telnet:|nntp:|file:/|https?:|ftps?:|webcal:)//([-A-Za-z0-9]+(:[-A-Za-z0-9,?;.:/!%$^*&~"#']+)?@)?[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?(/[-A-Za-z0-9_$.+!*(),;:@&=?/~#%]*[^]'.}>) \t\r\n,\"])?\>/?''')
-    self.matches['addr_only'] = self._vte.match_add ('''\<(www|ftp)[-A-Za-z0-9]*\.[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?(/[-A-Za-z0-9_$.+!*(),;:@&=?/~#%]*[^]'.}>) \t\r\n,\"])?\>/?''')
+    self.matches['full_uri'] = self._vte.match_add ('''[[:<:]](news:|telnet:|nntp:|file:/|https?:|ftps?:|webcal:)//([-A-Za-z0-9]+(:[-A-Za-z0-9,?;.:/!%$^*&~"#']+)?@)?[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?(/[-A-Za-z0-9_$.+!*(),;:@&=?/~#%]*[^]'.}>) \t\r\n,\"])?[[:>:]]/?''')
+    self.matches['addr_only'] = self._vte.match_add ('''[[:<:]](www|ftp)[-A-Za-z0-9]*\.[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?(/[-A-Za-z0-9_$.+!*(),;:@&=?/~#%]*[^]'.}>) \t\r\n,\"])?[[:>:]]/?''')
 
-    self.matches['email'] = self._vte.match_add ('''\<(mailto:)?[a-z0-9][a-z0-9.-]*@[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*(\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)+\>''')
+    self.matches['email'] = self._vte.match_add ('''[[:<:]](mailto:)?[a-z0-9][a-z0-9.-]*@[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*(\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)+[[:>:]]''')
 
-    self.matches['nntp'] = self._vte.match_add ('''\<news:[-A-Z\^_a-z{|}~!"#$%&'()*+,./0-9;:=?`]+@[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?\>''')
+    self.matches['nntp'] = self._vte.match_add ('''[[:<:]]news:[-A-Z\^_a-z{|}~!"#$%&'()*+,./0-9;:=?`]+@[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?[[:>:]]''')
 
     self.spawn_child ()