The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.emacs.bugs as well. On the apt.conf man page, it was not the // mistake that stopped emacs' ffap from finding the file. It was the dash stuff: In general the sample configuration file in /usr/share/doc/apt//exam- ples/apt.conf /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz is a good -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780