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When plumbing an address like `3-`, Acme selects line 1,
and similarly `3+` selects line 5.
The same problem can be observed for character addresses (`#123+`)
but _not_ for ones like `+`, `.+` or `/foo/+`:
The problem only occurs when a number is followed by a direction (`-`/`+`).
Following along with the example `3-` through `address` (in addr.c):
We read `3` into `c` and match the `case` on line 239.
The `while` loop on line 242ff reads additional digits into `c`
and puts the first non-digit back by decrementing the index `q`.
Then we find the range for line 3 on line 251 and continue.
On the next iteration, we set `prevc` to the last `c`,
but since that part read ahead _into `c`_,
`c` is currently the _next_ character we will read, `-`,
and now `prevc` is too.
Then in the case block (line 210) the condition on line 211 holds
and Acme believes that it has read two `-` in sequence
and modifies the range to account for the “first” `-`.
The “second” `-` gets applied after the loop is done, on line 292.
So the general problem is:
While reading numbers, Acme reads the next character after the number into `c`.
It decrements the counter to ensure it will read it again on the next iteration,
but it still uses it to update `prevc`.
This change solves the problem by reading digits into `nc` instead.
This variable is used to similar effect in the block for directions (line 212)
and fills the role of “local `c` that we can safely use to read ahead” nicely.
(imported from plan9front a82a8b6368274d77d42f526e379b74e79c137e26)
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