From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:
>It could be much more. If lina is the official Forth compiler installed
>and you have hello.4th
>you could say
> make hello
>That would be similar as having hello.c and saying
> make hello
What do you mean with "official Forth compiler installed"? In order
for something like this to work, Forth systems would also need to
agree on a common OS-command-line interface.
>Delivering syntax coloring to editors could be the next step.
Various editors have had syntax highlighting for Forth code for many
years. I use emacs, and gforth.el's Forth mode (based on Goran
Rydqvist's forth.el) has had syntax highlighting for a long time; here
we have it:
|commit a0117f0158a4cb57bcd61c03cd3285508cae229c
|Author: Bernd Paysan
|Date: Sat Mar 18 21:27:38 2000 +0000
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| Added syntax highlighting for Forth (not perfect yet)
When my students present their programs, they usually use code (the
one by MS) or vim, and both have syntax highlighting for Forth; in
some cases the syntax highlighting seems to be for a different
language, though. I guess this is the use of file extensions with the
highest impact in practice. So what file extensions do the editors
use?
When you have the development version of Gforth installed, you get:
emacs: .fs .fth .4th .fb (where .fb is for block files)
I leave it to other participants to list the extensions that turn on
Forth syntax highlighting for their favourite editor.
- anton
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