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Re: gforth.el questions

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In article <2016Aug27.094438@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>anotherreepca@gmail.com writes:
>>For some reason my gforth directory was in /usr/share/ instead of /usr/loca=
>>l/share/.
>
>That's normal if you install gforth through the distribution.
>
>> I visited it with M-x visit-tags-table, but typing "du" and then =
>>C-M-i just causes the minibuffer to say "no match" (same for <ESC><TAB>).
>
>I just tried this on Debian Jessie, and it showed me a selection of
>all the words starting with "du".  When I tried to complete "duxx", it
>did not do anything (or, if this is at the end of buffer, complains
>about that).  On Ubuntu 14.04 (with gforth 0.7.0), pretty much the
>same.
>
>> A=
>>lso, I tried to generate a TAGS file as per https://bernd-paysan.de/gforth-=
>>manual/Emacs-Tags.html but "require etags.fs" causes an error where the com=
>>ment word \ is undefined (specifically the comment is "our dictionary searc=
>>h order becomes the law ( -- )", and subsequently makes it impossible to us=
>>e any words.
>
>You tried to insert "require etags.fs" and then load Gforth's source
>files for building an image?  Yes, that can be tricky.
>
>>Version is 0.7.2, installed from ubuntu 16.04 repositories. Sh=
>>ould I try a manually-compiled more recent version?
>
>Actually, this should work fine in 0.7.2 (and earlier), but you never
>know what butchering the Debian/Ubuntu maintainers applied to the
>version you have.  You can look if the TAGS file contains anything,
>and if so, try if various other tags functions work, such as
>
>M-. du<tab>
>
>(should show you the completions of the words starting with "du", but
>in the Emacs mini-buffer), or
>
>M-x tags-apropos du .*
>
>or
>
>M-x list-tags /usr/share/gforth/0.7.2/prim
>
>Independently of this, it's a good idea to build and install gforth
>from the sources (either a tarball, or from the git (installed gforth
>needed for git)) on Debian/Ubuntu; advantages are that you get the
>manual installed, and that Gforth is considerably faster
>(Debian/Ubuntu disables one of the performance features).

Do you mean the man pages, or the info files?

>
>- anton
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gforth.el questions anotherreepca@gmail.com - 2016-08-25 22:15 -0700
  Re: gforth.el questions anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-26 08:07 +0000
    Re: gforth.el questions anotherreepca@gmail.com - 2016-08-26 07:56 -0700
      Re: gforth.el questions anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-27 07:44 +0000
        Re: gforth.el questions albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-08-28 20:40 +0200
          Re: gforth.el questions anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-29 23:11 +0000
  Re: gforth.el questions anotherreepca@gmail.com - 2016-08-29 21:46 -0700
    Re: gforth.el questions anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-31 16:11 +0000
      Re: gforth.el questions anotherreepca@gmail.com - 2016-08-31 18:16 -0700
        Re: gforth.el questions anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-09-01 05:20 +0000
          Re: gforth.el questions anotherreepca@gmail.com - 2016-08-31 23:21 -0700
            Re: gforth.el questions anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-09-01 08:26 +0000
              Re: gforth.el questions anotherreepca@gmail.com - 2016-09-01 11:40 -0700
  Re: gforth.el questions rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-09-02 19:39 -0400
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