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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From: hans bennekop <ylphcm <at> googlemail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: find-file-at-point doesn't recognize absolute file paths with trailing
 line numbers. (Patch included.)
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.

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