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Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors

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General Van Ryberg wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am new here, and quite new to Forth in general. Like some others here,
> I'm also from The Netherlands (Utrecht). While I work as a Python (and
> Java, my favorite) developer, for my small personal pet projects I was
> looking for something "different". Forth got me hooked. Love the "low
> level" feeling. After careful evaluating of both MPE's Forth and Forth
> Inc's SwiftForth, I decided to buy the latter and their two books (thanks
> to co-author mrs. Rather, they were very helpful).
> 
> Now I'm working on my first small, but "real" program, I have some
> difficulty with the integration of Forth and an external editor (currently
> using Notepad++).
> 
> I can type definitions in Forth, test them and when I'm happy with them,
> copy code to clipboard + alt-tab to the editor + find the definitions +
> select existing code in the editor to overwrite + paste. This has the
> drawback that i must be quite careful. And if I changed more than 1 word
> at a time, I must not forget to copy and manually replace them one at a
> time. This works, but feels a bit clumsy.
> 
> I can also INCLUDE an existing file. Develop/test my words. And finally
> with LOCATE, EDIT commands try to keep my editor files up to date from
> time to time. And every now and again use EMPTY and ABORT and then INCLUDE
> the file to see if I missed anything. And if I did, try to find out what
> with SwiftForth's History function. This is the approach I try to follow
> now, but still feel I might be missing something obvious.
> 
> I would have liked if SwiftForth had a built-in editor (a basic one would
> do IMHO), so it would be a bit easier to have both open in the same
> program (have the same parent GUI window). Or to least a function to
> optionally automatically reload an include file if its contents changed
> (was saved in an external editor).
> 
> I was wondering how others are "syncing" their interactively developed
> definitions with files and vice-versa?
> 
> Best regards,
> Vincent


I know in MPE's VxForth there is a way to attach your favourite text editor 
so that you can easily call it up when needed. I have mine permanently 
linked to Kwrite (as I run under Linux) but I would have to dig to find out 
(again) how that was done. Perhaps one of the vendors will advise soon.

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Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors General Van Ryberg <vvdleun@hotmail.com> - 2013-09-16 12:15 -0700
  Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2013-09-16 20:39 +0100
  Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors voidvolker@gmail.com - 2013-09-16 12:50 -0700
  Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-16 11:02 -1000
  Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@notthis.hetnet.nl> - 2013-09-17 00:50 +0200
  Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-16 20:35 -0700
    Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-17 00:39 -0400
      Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors josv@planet.nl - 2013-09-27 09:34 -0700
  Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-09-17 10:57 +0000
    Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@notthis.hetnet.nl> - 2013-09-17 17:49 +0200
      Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-09-17 17:05 +0000
        Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@notthis.hetnet.nl> - 2013-09-17 22:17 +0200
          Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-09-18 10:38 +0000
        Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-09-18 00:15 +0100
          Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@notthis.hetnet.nl> - 2013-09-18 09:37 +0200
            Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-09-18 08:46 +0000
            Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-09-18 17:44 +0100
              Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@notthis.hetnet.nl> - 2013-09-18 23:36 +0200
                Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-09-19 11:53 +0100
          Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-09-18 08:54 +0000
            Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2013-09-18 13:19 +0100
            Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-09-19 11:41 +0100
              Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors no.top.post@gmail.com - 2013-10-02 00:56 +0000
          Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-09-18 10:40 +0000
            Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-09-18 17:36 +0100
    Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-17 21:50 -0700
      Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-09-18 08:39 +0000
  Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2013-09-18 10:39 -0700
    Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2013-09-18 10:43 -0700
  Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors General Van Ryberg <vvdleun@hotmail.com> - 2013-09-21 00:32 -0700

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