From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7359f0490504090900720a8e1d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:00:32 -0700 From: Rob Pike To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme button 2 argument expansion: feature or bug? In-Reply-To: <1be4ac7a0db7deea32d263679da4c1e6@telus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1be4ac7a0db7deea32d263679da4c1e6@telus.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 352ecfa8-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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