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

From: hans bennekop <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:42:29 +0200

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.
Here's the (trivial) fix:
--- emacs-23/lisp/ffap.el
+++ emacs-23/lisp/ffap-fix.el
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@
           ;; remote, you probably already have a connection.
           ((and (not abs) (ffap-file-exists-string name)))
           ;; Try stripping off line numbers; good for compilation/grep 
output.
-         ((and (not abs) (string-match ":[0-9]" name)
+         ((and (string-match ":[0-9]" name)
                 (ffap-file-exists-string (substring name 0 
(match-beginning 0)))))
           ;; Try stripping off prominent (non-root - #) shell prompts
  	 ;; if the ffap-shell-prompt-regexp is non-nil.