I specified VIEW in 83. See if you have it. VIEW WORD-NAME ( -- ) ( It will take you to to the line of source code and if you are lucky it will have some comments inline with the code, but many programmers feel it just clutters up the source and that just viewing the source is enough. )
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Sergey M Plis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: [bigforth] interactivity support Date: Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:59 pm Size: 1K To: [email protected] 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! -- Sergey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
