diff --git a/apps/web/src/terminal-links.test.ts b/apps/web/src/terminal-links.test.ts
index 3c466378ba8bbc2fd519282312e2ca8e29f5aa2c..5cb2ad915827e46178987dff7ffce51227600d3a 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/terminal-links.test.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/terminal-links.test.ts
@@ -97,6 +97,24 @@ describe("extractTerminalLinks", () => {
       },
     ]);
   });
+
+  it("keeps a trailing colon on URLs", () => {
+    expect(extractTerminalLinks("GET https://example.test/items/foo:")).toEqual([
+      { kind: "url", text: "https://example.test/items/foo:", start: 4, end: 35 },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ["./main.go:10:5: undefined: x", "./main.go:10:5"],
+    ["/home/dev/app/src/main.c:10:5: error: expected ';'", "/home/dev/app/src/main.c:10:5"],
+    ["C:\\dev\\app\\src\\main.c:10:5: error: expected ';'", "C:\\dev\\app\\src\\main.c:10:5"],
+    ["wrote ./out/report.txt:", "./out/report.txt"],
+  ])("drops the colon that ends a compiler diagnostic location in %s", (line, text) => {
+    const start = line.indexOf(text);
+    expect(extractTerminalLinks(line)).toEqual([
+      { kind: "path", text, start, end: start + text.length },
+    ]);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("collectWrappedTerminalLinkLine", () => {
@@ -173,6 +191,13 @@ describe("resolvePathLinkTarget", () => {
       resolvePathLinkTarget("C:/Users/julius/project/src/main.ts:12", "C:\\Users\\julius\\project"),
     ).toBe("C:/Users/julius/project/src/main.ts:12");
   });
+
+  it("keeps the line and column of a compiler diagnostic", () => {
+    const [link] = extractTerminalLinks("/Users/julius/project/main.c:10:5: error: expected ';'");
+    expect(resolvePathLinkTarget(link?.text ?? "", "/Users/julius/project")).toBe(
+      "/Users/julius/project/main.c:10:5",
+    );
+  });
 });
 
 describe("isTerminalLinkActivation", () => {
diff --git a/apps/web/src/terminal-links.ts b/apps/web/src/terminal-links.ts
index 59e2082a735981af2264141c2287d4bbb0abb0dd..0f253588b700a91d8432e5191e1ab50a1af5a695 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/terminal-links.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/terminal-links.ts
@@ -35,9 +35,14 @@ const URL_PATTERN = /https?:\/\/[^\s"'`<>]+/giu;
 const FILE_PATH_PATTERN =
   /(?:~\/|\.{1,2}\/|\/|[A-Za-z]:[\\/]|\\\\)[^\s"'`<>]+|[A-Za-z0-9._-]+(?:\/[A-Za-z0-9._-]+)+(?::\d+){0,2}/g;
 const TRAILING_PUNCTUATION_PATTERN = /[.,;!?]+$/;
+// Paths also drop a trailing colon: compilers end `file:line:col:` with one.
+const TRAILING_PATH_PUNCTUATION_PATTERN = /[.,;:!?]+$/;
 
-function trimClosingDelimiters(value: string): string {
-  let output = value.replace(TRAILING_PUNCTUATION_PATTERN, "");
+function trimClosingDelimiters(value: string, kind: TerminalLinkKind): string {
+  let output = value.replace(
+    kind === "path" ? TRAILING_PATH_PUNCTUATION_PATTERN : TRAILING_PUNCTUATION_PATTERN,
+    "",
+  );
   if (output.length === 0) return output;
 
   const trimUnbalanced = (open: string, close: string) => {
@@ -73,7 +78,7 @@ function collectMatches(
     const start = rawMatch.index ?? -1;
     if (start < 0 || raw.length === 0) continue;
 
-    const trimmed = trimClosingDelimiters(raw);
+    const trimmed = trimClosingDelimiters(raw, kind);
     if (trimmed.length === 0) continue;
     if (kind === "path" && isTerminalUrl(trimmed)) continue;