Re: address@hidden: ffap-string-at-point-mode-alist error?]

[Glenn Morris]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> Trying to use ffap on a file name in a GNU standard error message
> is not an unusual usage pattern.  It is something that people using ffap
> will systematically be led to do.
>
> So I think we should make it handle this case right by default,
> not make it depend on the user for customization.
>
> As for HOW to do it, I have no opinion, since I don't use ffap.

I don't use it either. And the problem with these things that try to
guess what you mean is that sometimes there is no right solution.

But, I agree with your first point. I checked in a fix that lowers the
priority of the part that made ffap match this case as a remote file.