Re: Searching the Forth Dictionary

On 1/01/2025 12:15 pm, Sidney Reilley wrote:

Eternal Forth noob here. Tired & retired but still at it.
I'm currently playing with pforth. I'm following along this video:
https://youtu.be/qZKXZifB39Y which is using swiftforth. He uses the
word `edit' <filename> to create a file.
 
Is it possible to search a Forth implementation's dictionary to see
if a particular words is built in - like `edit' in this case? TIA ..

' EDIT  will report whether the word exists in the current search order.

The Standard has WORDS which displays all words.  Many systems augment
that either by expanding WORDS to allow a pattern match, or a separate
word to do that.  According to the pforth docs it has:

  WORDS.LIKE <name>