Factor development is best done with one of the supported editors; this allows you to quickly jump to definitions from the Factor environment.
Depending on the editor you are using, you must load one of the child vocabularies of the editors vocabulary, for example editors.emacs:
If you intend to always use the same editor, it helps to have it load during stage 2 bootstrap. Place the code to load and possibly configure it in the Bootstrap initialization file.
Editor integration vocabularies store an object in a global variable when loaded:
If a syntax error was thrown while loading a source file, you can jump to the location of the error in your editor:
If your favourite editor is missing, you can add support for it. A tutorial is available at Creating an editor integration.
edit ( object -- )
Depending on the editor you are using, you must load one of the child vocabularies of the editors vocabulary, for example editors.emacs:
USE: editors.emacs
If you intend to always use the same editor, it helps to have it load during stage 2 bootstrap. Place the code to load and possibly configure it in the Bootstrap initialization file.
Editor integration vocabularies store an object in a global variable when loaded:
editor-class
If a syntax error was thrown while loading a source file, you can jump to the location of the error in your editor:
:edit ( -- )
If your favourite editor is missing, you can add support for it. A tutorial is available at Creating an editor integration.