Best way to overide text object commands

Hello,

I have a text objec that is being fed a stream of single words from a javascript object. In betwen the javascript and the text object is a subpatcher that checks for messages to the text object and converts the to symbols. This is apparently a proximal cause to Max crashing (see below). I am wondering what the best way to convert messages like "open" so that it would be a word in the text object rather than opening it?

Thanks

I think this is the proximal cause of the crash becasue of these lines in the report. It is the only place I can find an iter leading to a route

0 com.cycling74.MaxMSPRuntime     0x00046336 route_list(route*, symbol*, short, atom*) + 46
1 com.cycling74.MaxMSPRuntime     0x0001b8f2 typedmess_fun + 782
2 com.cycling74.MaxMSPRuntime     0x0005e6ef outlet_anything + 727
3 com.cycling74.MaxAPI     0x0147a721 outlet_anything + 60
4 com.cycling74.iter     0x18d79dad iter_anything + 264