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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:15:29 +0100
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From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Another acme question
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2009/6/26 hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
> I have another problem with acme.
> Lets say I want to check the spelling in all the comments in a c file,
> so I execute:
> Edit ,x/\/\*.*\*\// > spell =C2=A0 (nevermind this doesn't work for more
> than one line comments)
> and nothing happens.

this seems to be a bug in spell - it ignores a final line with no linefeed.
this works ok:
Edit ,x/\/\*.*\*\// > {cat; echo} | spell

i've sometimes wondered if it'd be useful to have a variant on >
that prints the output of the command prefixed by the address
of the input (not that it would be particularly useful in this case, though=
,
as the words are easily searchable). i never thought of a decent
syntax for it though.