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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme button 2 argument expansion: feature or bug?
Date: Sat,  9 Apr 2005 09:24:45 -0700
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>,
	Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
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But even selecting the whole string fails: the colon and line number 
suffix is clobbered.
A simple non-solution is to change the dofile argument to the 
getbytearg call to false, which of course kills the full path expansion 
of the argument :-(, but at least doesn't kill the suffix.
I'd be happy to see the suffix not killed when the selected text was 
non-null.

Paul


On 9-Apr-05, at 9:00 AM, Rob Pike wrote:

> The thinking in the underlying code, which was co-opted for this
> purpose, is that a 'word' ends at punctuation.  It's pretty deeply
> rooted and would be annoying to change in general, which will
> mean hacking it for your particular purpose.
>
> Instead, I recommend just avoiding expansion in this case and
> selecting the whole string you wish to send.
>
> -rob
>