Subject: Re: bug#4374: find-file-at-point doesn't recognize absolute file paths with trailing line numbers. (Patch included.)

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:36:42 -0400

hans bennekop wrote:

> I frequently run across absolute file paths with a trailing line-number 
>   specification, e.g. ~/foo.el:7.
> Find-file-at-point fails to recognize the file part and falls back to 
> opening the parent dir.

(I guess path-separator is not ":" on your platform, since if it is
this seems to work for me.)

> Here's the (trivial) fix:

I installed something similar.