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From: "Fazlul Shahriar" <fshahriar@gma...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Question about acme and $acmeaddr
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:15:31 -0500

> Greetings,
> 
> I have started to use acme and would like to know how to use the
> environment variable $acmeaddr.
> I have the following script:
> 
> echo acmeaddr $acmeaddr '$*' $*
> 
> If I B1 on the file name only (in a tag) and the B2-1 on the script I get:
> 
> acmeaddr $* nibsOam
> 
> ie, $acmeaddr is empty. Is this as expected? The manual page says
> ''an environment variable $acmeaddr is created that holds, in the
> form interpreted by button 3, the fully-qualified address of
> the extra argument.''
> This made me expect at least something in $acmeaddr.

I think it's because you're clicking on something on the tag.  How can
it give a 'fully-qualified address' for text on the tag?  You need
to click/select something in the body.