Quoting Piotr Majdak piotr@majdak.com:
Works fine showing "abcdef" (abcdef is very long symbol, say 100 characters)
[a abcdef( | [print]
Results in "a abc*" !
oh does it ? i think that's the 3rd time in the last week i am writing to pd-related lists (once to gem-dev, one to pd-list (or was it pd-dev ??) about this very behaviour of [print].
Is this a feature, a bug, is it documented, why not cut the first symbol
i think none of them (i guess it's a safety check against locking the connection between pd and pd-gui; so that would be a feature if you have stability in mind; for most others it might appear a bug)
why it is not working on the "first symbol" is probably, because it is considered a selector rather than a symbol. (don't know though; i would have to check the code - should be in s_print.c)
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