[TxMt] tmCommand input: selected text OR character doesn't work?

[Hans-Jörg Bibiko]

On 10.10.2007, at 16:52, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> On 10/10/2007, at 16:18, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:
>> [...]
>> If I don't make a selection it outputs only '()'.
>> But I expect between the parenthesizes the character left from the  
>> caret.
>> Can this verified by others as well, or am i wrong, or is my TM  
>> installation broken?
> Maybe let the command be: xxd
> That should show exactly what you get as stdin (as a hex dump).
>

OK. That works, but I get the character RIGHT of the caret.
On the other hand why does not work 'selected text' or 'character'?

Thanks,
Hans