Re: Searching the Forth Dictionary

In article <20241231192509.3f7fa2025df5fcfc08c50feb@gmail.com>,
Sidney Reilley  <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 13:10:02 +1100
dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:
>

On 1/01/2025 12:52 pm, Sidney Reilley wrote:

On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 12:31:46 +1100
dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:
>

According to the pforth docs it
has:
>
  WORDS.LIKE <name>

>
Many thanks! I installed pforth by cloning its from githup
repo. No docs in there. Where did you find the docs please?
TIA ..

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https://www.softsynth.com/pforth/pf_ref.php
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The source file is here:
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https://github.com/philburk/pforth/blob/master/fth/wordslik.fth
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Don't know if automatically included or whether you need to do it
yourself.

>
Got it - thx! I need to get used to "the lay of the land" so to
speak. Anyway, pforth does not have an `edit' word built in. I
like the way swiftforth launches your default editor when calling
`edit <filename>' ! Thx again ...

I find it decreasingly useful to be able to do that.
My editor edits multiple files at the same time with
blindly fast switches. With a built in command to save one file,
that you are working on, it is way more convenient to start the
editor in a separate window.

Suppose you do
  rlwrap myforth
  ...
rlwrap adds logging and command history and line editing to myforth.

My editor interprets ^C as 8 lines down. Before the ^C gets
to the editor, it is interpreted by rlwrap and it terminates
the whole shebang. Unpleasant things may happen with ^S ^Q ^D too.

I have a defining word OS-IMPORT for the situation that you
would run a command from the operating system:

"TYPE   "   OS-IMPORT cat
"ECHO   "   OS-IMPORT echo
"MORE<  "   OS-IMPORT more
\ "LIST  "   OS-IMPORT more
"DIR    "   OS-IMPORT ls
"COPY   "   OS-IMPORT cp
"DEL    "   OS-IMPORT rm
"EDIT   "   OS-IMPORT ed
"ee     "   OS-IMPORT ee  \ My favorite editor
""          OS-IMPORT !!

Note that this is for windows, to behave like unix commands.

Duke
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