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Re: The Forth console and cursor management

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Matthias Trute wrote:
>> Does your favourite Forth do this (the > and < are meta chars to
>> indicate input and output, the underscore is the cursor caret)
>
> my amforth works that way
>
>>    >1 2 3 .s
>>    <[3] 1 2 3  ok[3]
>>    <_
>
>> And which is preferable?
>
> I like the look and feel of unix console sessions, therefore
> a command input line ends with a line feed and the program
> output starts at a new line. mixing input and output in one
> line I consider confusing. Tastes differ, so this behavior
> is customizable with some defers.

It can be confusing at times, but if your system doesn't allow it a 
certainly level of interactivity will be lost.

-- 

Rick C

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The Forth console and cursor management Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-23 12:57 +0100
  Re: The Forth console and cursor management Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2017-05-23 05:18 -0700
  Re: The Forth console and cursor management anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-23 12:48 +0000
    Re: The Forth console and cursor management Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-23 15:45 +0100
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      Re: The Forth console and cursor management anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-24 10:16 +0000
  Re: The Forth console and cursor management minforth@arcor.de - 2017-05-23 06:22 -0700
    Re: The Forth console and cursor management Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-05-23 06:27 -0700
  Re: The Forth console and cursor management minforth@arcor.de - 2017-05-23 06:44 -0700
    Re: The Forth console and cursor management rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-23 11:50 -0400
  Re: The Forth console and cursor management Matthias Trute <matthias.trute@gmail.com> - 2017-05-23 09:20 -0700
    Re: The Forth console and cursor management rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-23 17:46 -0400
  Re: The Forth console and cursor management peter.m.falth@gmail.com - 2017-05-23 12:12 -0700
  Re: The Forth console and cursor management Rob Sciuk <rob@controlq.com> - 2017-05-26 12:44 -0400

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