bug#27267: 25.1; ffap-file-at-point erroneously returns "" in some cases

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Alex <agrambot@gmail.com> writes:

> Execute ffap-file-at-point with the following buffer contents (| for
> cursor position):
>
> 7:|
>
> The result is "", which leads to ffap's default input being ~ (not ~/ as
> expected).

I get

(ffap-file-at-point)
=> "/home/larsi/"

so this seems like it's fixed.

>
> Similarly, try ffap-file-at-point on:
>
> :6|
>
> This is due to ffap-file-at-point stripping off the colon and numbers,
> and sending "" to ffap-file-exists-string. (file-exists-p "") returns t,
> so ffap-file-at-point treats "" as an existent file.

I get nil from that in the Emacs trunk, which seems correct, so I guess
this has been fixed to, and I'm closing this bug report.  Please reopen
if this is still present on the trunk.

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