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Re: Making Forth official

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"Lars Brinkhoff"  wrote in message news:85a9gwlx7u.fsf@junk.nocrew.org...
>
>Mark wrote:
>> Albert van der Horst wrote:
>> > With this added to virtually all editors, .frt will become the de
>> > facto extension for Forth source files under Linux which is
>> > important since Linux has attained world domination.
>> Personally I have always quite liked .4th as being suitably
>> descriptive and to the point.
>
>These Forth file extensions are used on GitHub, ordered from most
>popular to least:
>
>1. fs
>2. fth
>3. f
>4. 4th
>5. fr
>6. frt
>7. forth
>8. 4
>
>I have attempted to avoid false positives from e.g. F# files.

Thanks for the list - very useful.

It looks like I am going to have to make a decision regarding file 
extensions for the gedit syntax highlighter very soon. The developers are 
proposing that I drop all conflicting file extensions as a minimum and 
possibly consider picking just one.

Based on the above list .fs (FSharp) and .f (Fortran) would need to be 
dropped. A quick web search reveals that .fth is associated with FileMaker 
Pro, .fr is associated with movie capture files and .frt is associated with 
FoxPro report files. I realise that these aren't necessarily going to be a 
problem for a programmers text editor, but they do appear to be primarily 
recognised as things other than Forth source.

A search on filext.com shoes that .4th is primarily associated with Forth 
source.

The adoption of .4th and .forth seems to make a great deal of sense to me.

Regards

Mark

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Making Forth official albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-11-21 13:23 +0000
  Re: Making Forth official Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2013-11-21 14:54 +0100
    Re: Making Forth official gavino_himself <visploveslisp@gmail.com> - 2013-12-03 11:59 -0800
  Re: Making Forth official anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-11-21 13:57 +0000
    Re: Making Forth official Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2013-11-21 15:49 +0000
      Re: Making Forth official "Mark" <mark@dibsco.co.uk> - 2013-11-21 16:03 +0000
        Re: Making Forth official Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2013-11-21 23:27 +0000
        Re: Making Forth official C G Montgomery <cgm@physics.utoledo.edu> - 2013-11-21 19:20 -0500
          Re: Making Forth official "Mark" <mark@dibsco.co.uk> - 2013-11-22 10:43 +0000
            Re: Making Forth official Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-11-22 17:24 +0100
              Re: Making Forth official Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2013-11-24 14:11 +0100
        Re: Making Forth official albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-11-22 01:59 +0000
          Re: Making Forth official "Mark" <mark@dibsco.co.uk> - 2013-11-22 11:00 +0000
            Re: Making Forth official rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-11-22 12:05 -0500
              Re: Making Forth official "Mark" <mark@dibsco.co.uk> - 2013-11-22 21:15 +0000
    Re: Making Forth official albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-11-22 01:55 +0000
  Re: Making Forth official "Mark" <mark@dibsco.co.uk> - 2013-11-21 15:50 +0000
    Re: Making Forth official Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-11-22 00:03 +0100
    Re: Making Forth official Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2013-11-22 08:19 +0100
      Re: Making Forth official m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2013-11-21 23:42 -0800
        Re: Making Forth official albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-11-23 17:22 +0000
          Re: Making Forth official Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2013-11-24 14:07 +0100
      Re: Making Forth official "Mark" <mark@dibsco.co.uk> - 2013-11-22 11:30 +0000
        Re: Making Forth official "Mark" <mark@dibsco.co.uk> - 2013-11-22 11:35 +0000
        Re: Making Forth official "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-11-23 19:11 +1100
          Re: Making Forth official albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-11-23 12:46 +0000
            Re: Making Forth official "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-11-27 12:42 +1100
              Re: Making Forth official albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-11-27 03:35 +0000
        Re: Making Forth official albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-11-23 17:31 +0000
          Re: Making Forth official "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-11-24 04:35 -0500
  Re: Making Forth official ForthFreak <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-11-21 23:53 -0800
  Re: Making Forth official "Mark" <mark@dibsco.co.uk> - 2013-12-31 16:48 +0000
    Re: Making Forth official albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-12-31 22:49 +0000
      Re: Making Forth official Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-31 15:10 -0800
        Re: Making Forth official albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-01-01 14:12 +0000
          Re: Making Forth official anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-02 17:46 +0000
            Re: Making Forth official Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-02 13:03 -0800
              Re: Making Forth official "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-01-02 20:16 -0500
              Re: Making Forth official Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-03 01:24 -0800
            Re: Making Forth official "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-01-02 20:13 -0500
      Re: Making Forth official anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-02 17:33 +0000
        Re: Making Forth official albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-01-02 19:22 +0000

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