Hello,
I've been trying to work through the getting started tutorial for Factor
on a 32-bit Linux system (Debian stable). I've tried using two official
releases (factor-linux-x86-32-2009-10-14-16-57.tar.gz and -10-19-01-04)
and a manual build of today's factor-clean-linux-x86-32 git repositiory.
I've three questions; have already tried searching the mailing list
archives and reading both the factor source and the wiki documentation:
- 'refresh' doesn't appear to work for me. Has anybody else witnessed
similar behaviour? Neither hitting F2, typing refresh-all, nor
typing '"palindrome" refresh' (this is the "Your first program"
palindrome tutorial) cause palindrome.factor to be reloaded on my
machine. I've tried this both on AFS (network file system) disks
and local storage. In all three releases, if I create a version of
palindrome.factor with a bug, 'USE: palindrome', discover the bug,
fix it and re-save, refresh will not load the fixed implementation.
"make" works just fine on this machine, so my filing system does
support working timestamps. Does Factor need a particular file
modification monitoring library installed or something?
http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-first-program.html
This is something of a show-stopper as far as I can see, since I
don't know how else to iterate a debug-edit cycle: typing 'USE:
palindrome' again won't load the fixed version of palindrome.factor
that I've just saved either.
- How can I control the location of my work directory? I share a home
directory between several machines and architectures, so it would be
nice to be able to install Factor on all three machines, but have a
common work directory. I've come up with a workaround using
symlinks for the time being, but even though I've read the page on
Working with code outside of the Factor source tree and poked around
at the stuff around resource-path and normalize-path, it's not
obvious to me how I can indicate a work directory separate from my
Factor source tree. Is a symlink the only way?
http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-add-vocab-roots.html
- Finally, I can't use middle-click to paste into my Listener in all
circumstances: if I select text from the Listener window itself, I
can then paste a copy of that text back into the Listener window
using middle-click, as is normal under X Windows; however, if I
select text from other applications, such as my web browser or a
terminal window, middle-click won't paste (control-C, control-V
still works). In the past I've witnessed this kind of behaviour
resulting from character encoding problems, e.g. the receiving
window is in the "C" locale, while the source window is UTF-8. My
machine is configured to use UTF-8. Is there anything I can do
about this?
http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-gadgets-editors-commands.html
All help on the above three issues, particularly the first, greatly
appreciated: I'd like to just start experimenting with the language :)
Regards,
Conrad
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