An effective find/search is what has made Google great. Doing effective searches with find in files has often given me good hints/solutions as has doing searches in/on jsoftware.com
I have had as a goal/interest to make/explain J/APL code for others for decades. I have no idea how successful that has been and I am very often surprised of how difficult it is to get people interested in doing something themselves on their own. 2011/4/20 Ian Clark <[email protected]> > Thanks, Björn. I do have effective tools to reverse-engineer the > contents of locales, including an assortment of finds with instant > display. > > My problem was psychological not technical: I'd got it into my head > that the code ran in 'jijs' not a numbered locale, with 'jijs' in its > copath. Once Raul alerted me to this, the evidence was staring me in > the face. > > Where I do perceive the need for a better 'find' is the entire J > knowledge-base. Yes, there are a number of ways-in (and I ought to > codify them) but it's all a bit hitty-missy. > > 10 years ago I recall trawling the M$ knowledge base for the answer to > yet-another Excel/ActiveX gotcher, when a junior colleague showed me > that Google made a far better job of finding any bit of Windows gen > than M$'s own tools. It was a *very* junior colleague -- which made me > aware it's possible to get too old for this trade. > > ...BTW I've just tried Googling SMHWNDP ...hahah! All is explained. > > > 2011/4/20 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>: > > Maybe you could have made a good use of utility like find in locales > > - an extension to find in files > > > > > > 2011/4/19 Ian Clark <[email protected]> > > > >> Brilliant! Thanks Raul, that does the trick nicely. > >> > >> Kinda obvious in hindsight. newijs_jijs_ will of course not create the > >> "missing" globals, SMHWNDP, SMNAME, IFIJX in its own locale, but in a > >> separate instantiated object (a numbered locale) so as to allow > >> several IJS windows to be open at once. In fact that's all the > >> numbered locale contains. > >> > >> But I wonder how long it would have taken me to guess that, without > help. > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> >> It needs an explicit File > Save to save its contents. I would like > to > >> >> do this automatically inside ijsstr. But when I add a further line > >> >> like this: > >> >> > >> >> ijsstr=: 3 : 0 > >> >> NB. Open a new IJS window with: (str)y > >> >> cocurrent 'jijs' > >> >> newijs'' NB. create a new IJS window > >> >> wd 'set e *',,y NB. and fill it with the text in y > >> >> save 2 NB. just guessing at: y=2 > >> >> ) > >> >> > >> >> it fails because necessary globals aren't set up, notably SMHWNDP. > >> > > >> > I am getting: > >> > > >> > newijs_jijs_'' > >> > save_jijs_ ".>{:conl 1 > >> > |domain error: wd > >> > | dat=. wd'qd' > >> > > >> > That fails for me, but I think this does what you want: > >> > > >> > n=: {:conl 1 > >> > save__n '' > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Raul > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur > > Fornustekkum II > > 781 Hornafirði, > > t-póst: [email protected] > > gsm: +3546985532 > > twitter: @flugfiskur > > http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming > > > > > > Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans > > > > góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum > > /|_ .-----------------------------------. > > ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | > > ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | > > / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | > > ( -. | `-----------------------------------' > > | ) | (\_ _/) > > (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ > > `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 twitter: @flugfiskur http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
