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Subject: Re: Searching the Forth Dictionary
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In article <20241231185256.1ae04c7aa9c7b24a19e39956@gmail.com>,
Sidney Reilley  <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 12:31:46 +1100
>dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1/01/2025 12:15 pm, Sidney Reilley wrote:
>> > Eternal Forth noob here. Tired & retired but still at it.
>> > I'm currently playing with pforth. I'm following along this
>> > video: https://youtu.be/qZKXZifB39Y which is using swiftforth.
>> > He uses the word `edit' <filename> to create a file.
>> >
>> > Is it possible to search a Forth implementation's dictionary to
>> > see if a particular words is built in - like `edit' in this
>> > case? TIA ..
>>
>> ' EDIT  will report whether the word exists in the current search
>> order.
>>
>> The Standard has WORDS which displays all words.  Many systems
>> augment that either by expanding WORDS to allow a pattern match,
>> or a separate word to do that.  According to the pforth docs it
>> has:
>>
>>   WORDS.LIKE <name>
>
>Many thanks! I installed pforth by cloning its from githup repo. No
>docs in there. Where did you find the docs please? TIA ..

With all due respect, but why choose a Forth where you have no
documentation?

You have not looked very far.
If you install pforth on linux (as I did) you have a man page
that refers to http://www.softsynth.com/pforth/.
Plenty of documentation there.

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