Re: [9front] plumbing with spaces

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

"sadly the newline messes things up"
which step actually messes it up? i realize only now that i never
understood how this works.

On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 5:58 AM <umbraticus@prosimetrum.com> wrote:
>
> It's not really the plumber's fault; rather it's how the
> programs at either end cope. I do think it would be
> nice if you could select a line in rio by double-clicking
> then plumb: sadly the newline messes things up, so
> one must resort to surrounding spacey plumb strings
> with brackets or braces or quotes or whatever to avoid
> precision sweeping. Both sam and ed cope with my
> 'test file with spaces' per the below rule. I pass no
> comment on any other editor.
>
> data matches test.*
> arg isfile $data
> plumb start window sam ''''$file''''
>
> umbraticus