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My current favorite emacs hack, thanks to SeanO. This extends find-file-at-point (which I have bound to C-x C-p) to automatically look a bit further for a line number and use it if available:

(defadvice find-file-at-point (around goto-line compile activate)
  (let ((line (and (looking-at ".*:\\([0-9]+\\)")
                   (parse-integer (match-string 1)))))
    ad-do-it
    (and line (goto-line line))))