Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Paul E Bennett Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Advice requested on working with Forth and external editors Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:19:18 +0100 Organization: Hidecs Consultancy Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <2013Sep17.125734@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2013Sep17.190514@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2013Sep18.105420@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net qK2oCmy9YL/sdmmt4Rj2PwHhleiTNUuW7Q3K0NSYEaME8V9PlV Cancel-Lock: sha1:8+9Ii2XnKAoTDZh8uBEyFkHNlTI= User-Agent: KNode/4.10.5 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:25759 > I tried Eclipse when wanting to demonstrate an IDE when teaching a > Java course last semester. After spending a quarter-hour without > getting anywhere, I gave up and demonstrated an IDE with Java Beans. > > Anyway, the Emacs Forth mode by Goran Rydquist (on which gforth.el is > based) has such a feature, and it works (or worked) without taking the > hands off the keyboard, but I found having a shell in a separate > window preferable (even though it means that I have to grab the mouse > to switch windows). > > - anton Having a Touch Screen on my normal machine means I don't need to use the mouse to switch windows. I can just point at the one I want in focus. -- ******************************************************************** Paul E. Bennett IEng MIET..... Forth based HIDECS Consultancy............. Mob: +44 (0)7811-639972 Tel: +44 (0)1235-510979 Going Forth Safely ..... EBA. www.electric-boat-association.org.uk.. ********************************************************************