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@@ -309,12 +309,18 @@ not the hits buffer it opened. A look takes acme's addresses after a colon (editors/acme/look.c:450): a line written to `look` as `file:/re/`, `file:#n`, `file:$` or any address -opens (or finds) the file and selects what the address names, evaluated -from its dot; `:addr` does the same in the pane itself. `file:12` and -`file:12:5` stay line and column. A bare `/re/` is a path, as in acme, and -failing that a search for its text. A look that finds nothing, or an -address that does not evaluate, says so on the message row and changes -nothing: no buffer opens and the selection stays. +opens (or finds) the file and selects what the address names. **The +address is evaluated from the file's dot**, as acme's is: `file:/re/` +finds the next match after the current selection, not the first in the +file. For the first, start at the top: `file:0/re/` (or `file:#0/re/`). +`:addr` does the same in the pane itself, and a pattern may hold blanks +(`calc.py:/return a/`). `file:12` selects line 12, its newline included, +as acme's does; `file:12:5` puts the caret at line 12, column 5. A bare +`/re/` is a path, as in acme, and failing that a search for its text. A +look that finds nothing, an address that does not evaluate, or a line past +the file's end (`calc.py:99`) says so on the message row and in the log +(`err <serial> look: ...`), focuses and opens nothing, keeps the +selection, and leaves `look` reading back empty. `/pane/<n>/name` reads the pane's file name (a terminal's directory) and writing it renames the buffer; a relative name resolves against the pane's |