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   dxf to Sidney Reilley   
   Re: Searching the Forth Dictionary   
   01 Jan 25 12:31:46   
   
   From: dxforth@gmail.com   
      
   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'  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    
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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