I've just started studying Factor programming language, here are a few of my notes so far.
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Some notes on how to play with Factor with your favorite editor.
I'll be using e-texteditor, because Factor comes with an included TextMate bundle. But be aware that there are unsupported actions under Windows inside the menu.
I've made a special etexteditor.factor file for factor, you'll find it here.
You'll have to create a file ~/.factor-rc. Windows explorer can't create a file that starts with a . , so this little python script will handle the task :
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
conf = """USING: namespaces editors.etexteditor ;"""
f = open('.factor-rc','w')
f.write(conf)
f.close()
Put this in your C:\Documents and Settings\user-name directory and run it once, it will then create a .factor-rc.
Now, supposed you have a vocabulary inside work/palindrome and a word palindrome?, just type the following to edit your word definition:
USE: palindrome
\ palindrome? edit
e-texteditor will then be called by Factor, you must see something like this :
Note : I have a problem when editing a word, _e opens the file it is in but also another one called "-n9*" : I really don't know what's that.
A better alternative (for me) is to use the new EMacs's FUEL mode. It comes bundled with factor, inside the /misc directory.
I've made a little cheatsheet for FUEL, you'll find it here : the FUEL cheatsheet
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