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[lethosor]

The quotes are important. If you don't put quotes around "RED BERYL", DFHack will interpret it as two separate arguments. Did you try quotes?

[jimboo]

Huh.  How ‘bout that.  Why isn’t this mentioned in the DFHACK list??  Thanks much – and Pink Tourmaline is the same color.   

[Putnam]

Huh.  How ‘bout that.  Why isn’t this mentioned in the DFHACK list??

AFAIK, DFHack seems to assume at least minor experience with consoles, where in all cases arguments with spaces in the middle must be surrounded by quotes.

[Abadrausar]

..., but I may just write a guide on gm-editor at some point soon enough (once I'm done updating one of my older mods), ...

I am really interested in this guide after seeing how the colonies plugin can be advantageously substituted by some puny lines of lua code.

Finally got around to it!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-- creates a honey_bee (or other vermin) colony at pointer
local args={...}
local vermin_name=args[1] or "HONEY_BEE"
local vermin_id
function findVermin(name)
    for k,v in pairs(df.global.world.raws.creatures.all) do
        if v.creature_id==name then
            return k
        end
    end
    qerror("No vermin found with name:"..name)
end
vermin_id=findVermin(vermin_name)
local pos=copyall(df.global.cursor)
if pos.x==-30000 then
    qerror("Cursor must be pointing somewhere")
end
local verm=df.vermin:new()
verm.race=vermin_id
verm.flags.is_colony=true
verm.caste=-1 -- check for queen bee?
verm.amount=18826
verm.visible=true
verm.pos:assign(pos)
df.global.world.vermin.colonies:insert("#",verm)
df.global.world.vermin.all:insert("#",verm)

Should create colony at cursor.

Not sure however where to search for this gm-editor guide, it is already written?

[Putnam]

I decided against it once I realized that it would be about the same as writing a guide on DF's entire memory outline. Seriously, most of my gm-editor-type stuff is done from my own memory of what the structures look like.

[lethosor]

Huh.  How ‘bout that.  Why isn’t this mentioned in the DFHACK list??

AFAIK, DFHack seems to assume at least minor experience with consoles, where in all cases arguments with spaces in the middle must be surrounded by quotes.

It's also documented:

To include whitespace in the argument/s to some command, quote it in double quotes. To include a double quote character, use \".