Hi Nicolas,

Sorry I mistyped in the message, I did have two colons when trying it out.
I will look into the
function you pointed out.

When you said you cannot reproduce it, does that mean it works/matches for
you?

I am using Emacs 25.3.5 and org-20180226

-f

On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:42 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> "Frankie Y. Liu" <frankie.y.liu@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > For:
> >
> > \\.pdf:\\([0-9]+\\)\\'
>
> You forgot a colon.
>
> > [0-9]+ vs \d+ same issue, since the path not the link is being
> > matched.
> >
> > Example:
> > file:foo.pdf::1 will be matching on file:foo.pdf and the ::1 is
> > dropped.
>
>
> I cannot reproduce it here. The function
> `org-file-apps-entry-match-against-dlink-p' is responsible for deciding
> if a link needs to be matched in full, or not.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou                                                0x80A93738
>