Made so the local_and_global_search strips the query of surrounding whitespace. Many calling functions don't do this properly, making it a source of bugs. E.g. "@desc obj = text" did not locate obj but "@desc obj= text" did.

src/ansi.py

@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ class ExtendedANSIParser(MuxANSIParser):
         (r'{n', normal)                            #reset
         ] )
     
-ANSI_PARSER = MuxANSIParser()
-#ANSI_PARSER = ExtendedANSIParser()
+#ANSI_PARSER = MuxANSIParser()
+ANSI_PARSER = ExtendedANSIParser()
 
 def parse_ansi(string, strip_ansi=False, strip_formatting=False, parser=ANSI_PARSER):
     """

src/commands/objmanip.py

@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ def cmd_recover(command):
     Recovers @destroyed non-player objects.
 
     Usage:
-       @recover [dbref [,dbref2, etc]] 
+       @recover[/switches] [obj [,obj2, ...]] 
 
     switches:
        ROOM - recover as ROOM type instead of THING
@@ -818,15 +818,15 @@ def cmd_recover(command):
 
     If no argument is given, a list of all recoverable objects will be given. 
     
-    Objects scheduled for destruction with the @destroy command is cleaned out
+    Objects scheduled for destruction with the @destroy command are cleaned out
     by the game at regular intervals. Up until the time of the next cleanup you can
     recover the object using this command (use @ps to check when the next cleanup is due).
-    Note that exits and objects in @destroyed rooms will not be automatically recovered
-    to its former state, you have to @recover those objects manually.
+    Note that exits linked to @destroyed rooms will not be automatically recovered
+    to its former state, you have to @recover those manually.
 
-    The object type is forgotten, so the object is returned as type ITEM if not the
-    switches /ROOM or /EXIT is given. Note that recovering an item as the wrong type will
-    most likely make it nonfunctional. 
+    Objects are returned as type THING if the object type is not explicitly set using the 
+    switches. Note that recovering an item as the wrong type will most likely make it
+    nonfunctional. 
     """
 
     source_object = command.source_object

src/objects/managers/object.py

@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ class ObjectManager(models.Manager):
         dbref_only: (bool) Only compare dbrefs.
         limit_types: (list of int) A list of Object type numbers to filter by.
         """
-        search_query = ostring
+        search_query = str(ostring).strip()
 
         # This is a global dbref search. Not applicable if we're only searching
         # searcher's contents/locations, dbref comparisons for location/contents