GNU bug report logs - #4374
find-file-at-point doesn't recognize absolute file paths with trailing line numbers. (Patch included.)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: hans bennekop <ylphcm <at> googlemail.com>

Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:50:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 4374-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 4374-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4374: find-file-at-point doesn't recognize absolute file paths with trailing line numbers. (Patch included.)
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.
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