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From: Sidney Reilley <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Searching the Forth Dictionary
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:52:56 -0700
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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 ..
-- 
Duke
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