Closed olleharstedt closed 1 year ago
Gforth (development system) itself contains a word help
, which allows to look up the definition of a word. It uses a flat text file of the manual, and looks for the markup of word definitions, so yes, it is possible to automatically query the meaning of a word.
We should probably also generate an index, which collects the entry points for all words, so that other IDEs can jump right into web page.
Perfect! Thank you.
Comparing with php.net, each function has a clear URL, like https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-chunk
For gforth, it looks like https://gforth.org/manual/Memory-Blocks.html#index-erase_0028--addr-u-_002d_002d--_0029-core_002dext for the
erase
word.This means I cannot create a script to automatically query the meaning of a word.
see
does not explain the semantics of a word, so it's not a good alternative (unless you're willing to learn and read assembly, or already know Forth in-depth).Would you be willing to restructure the gforth manual homepage to allow for IDE-like word lookup in Vim/Emacs?