Re: Possible bug with text search range

you are right!
the range message did not work as OP (and I) expected.

Cheers
C

Le 19/03/2026 à 13:55, Ben Wesch a écrit :
> cyrille henry wrote:
>> It look like the text search ignore the range in some situation.
> 
> there was some confusion about the second argument in the `range` message, which sets the range size, not the right index (see (see https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/2868 ). so the message syntax is `range <onset> <range>`, not `range <from> <to>`:
> 
> https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/208fd75ec24d381dddada34224dc40ee1ed73238/src/x_text.c#L1329-L1332
> 
> this was not well explained in the [text search] help for older pd version and https://github.com/ben-wes/pure-data/commit/588b125c568715404a3d97b37597d6be8da56d0a tried to clarify things a bit - but it might still not match intuitive expectations.
> 
> cheers,
> ben
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