list cat works, for some reason symbol does not.

But what if I have a lot of patches to open, and not only cat :) how can I make it interchangeable? [list $1( what command should get to open any other namings?

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 3:51 PM Roman Haefeli <reduzent@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, 2019-11-26 at 15:12 +0100, Csaba Láng wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I want to open from a pd patch a pd patch withe the message:
>
> [;
> pd open $1.pd /path-topatch;(

[...]

> just to be clear, if I want to open cat.pd, a message [cat( will not
> make it happen.

Use [symbol cat(.

Read about Pd's message types:
https://puredata.info/docs/manuals/pd/x2.htm#s3.1

Roman

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