Hi,
In bigforth I am missing some of the features that anything that is
interactive needs to have. May be these features are already there and
just because of lack of documentation or because I was not reading it
closely enough I do not know about them.
1. One of the top missing features is the ability to pop help for a
word. Something like help word, that should give a short description and
the stack comments. I often forget the exact parameter order. Such
feature should not affect the run time system, since help descriptions
can be comments in the file where a word is defined. When issuing help
the correct file can be parsed and the correct comment extracted. It
seems that it is enough to know which file a word comes from, and then
do all the rest by brute force search through that file for the
particular comment that would signify documentation. Another design can
be having a separate documentation file for each .fs file and do search
there. The delay does not matter at all since it is interactive session
and the search would probably finish even before enter key is released.
In any case, that feature seems like a very reasonable one.
2. Search through command history. Is it already there? Something like
bash ctrl+r
Just trying to find out if these features are already there.
Thanks!
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Sergey
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