New editor functions

Charles Shattuck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.forth.colorforth
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 07:16 -0800, John Drake wrote:
> 
> --- Jeff Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
>  
> > Yes, they key thing is that those are editor
> > functions:
> > 
> > def name
> >  searches the source for places where "name" is
> > defined in red
> > find name
> >  searches the source for places where "name" is used
> > 
> > the f key in the editor repeats the last find
> 
> Ok.  I can't get this to work.  Help please?  I'm
> using ColorForth for Windows, but most of the time
> it works the same as "regular" ColorForth.  When
> I'm not in edit mode and I type "def" I just get
> the infamous "?".  Do I have to be in edit mode
> for this to work?  If so, how do I issue commands
> from edit mode?  Is there a webpage anyware that
> describes this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John M. Drake
> 
I saw Chuck's demo at Forth Day too.  He was using his current version
of colorforth.  We are using the one from several years ago, before he
added the def and find functions.  We will have to create those
functions ourselves or wait for Chuck to release a more recent
colorforth.

Charley Shattuck
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