Sorry folx, I'm still with j602 when it comes to exploring J and explaining
it to newcomers rather than working on leading-edge apps. I wasn't aware
'edit' hadn't made the leap. Suspect that's true of a lot of things I take
for granted.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> edit 'verbname' works in j6, I use it there relatively often. I think
> I remember some discussion about making it work in jhs.
>
> A limitation of edit is that it needs an unambiguously defined editor
> for J to use to do the editing.
>
> A related issue is that we have a tradition of integrating the
> language's capabilities with the environment, and the windows console
> (for example) does not include an unambiguously defined editor. (Unix
> consoles might, but jconsole is more of a bootstrap environment than
> an integrated environment.)
>
> Similarly, edit under jhs would face several ambiguities. Here's a
> rough draft of a version of edit for jhs:
>
> edit=:3 : 0
> open ;(4!:4 boxopen y) { 4!:3''
> )
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Brian Schott <schott.br...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Ian,
> >
> > I have been using J for some time and was not aware of `edit`, so I
> wonder
> > where it is promoted? My consternation at your message was continued
> when I
> > only tried using `edit` in jconsole, and it did not work.
> >
> > Btw, thanks for this email contribution.
> >
> > 9!:14''
> > j701/2011-01-10/11:25 build: Feb 6 2011 16:16:29
> > 9!:12''
> > 5
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> @jasmine - it's hard to know how to do better than
> >> edit 'stdlib'
> >> or for a particular verb:
> >> edit 'splitstring'
> >> because the scripts are well-commented. And they have the vast
> advantage of
> >> keeping themselves up-to-date -- a biiiiiiiig problem with jwiki.
> >>
> >>
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