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@vertigo @pointfree I work in sales & purchasing for an electrical supply wholesaler. (Think wire, conduit, & distribution equipment). I've been doing this for 13 or 14 years now. It pays the bills, and means that I can choose what to work on with programming & hardware for personal and consulting projects.

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@vertigo @pointfree I work in sales & purchasing for an electrical supply wholesaler. (Think wire, conduit, & distribution equipment). I've been doing this for 13 or 14 years now. It pays the bills, and means that I can choose what to work on with programming & hardware for personal and consulting projects.

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@vertigo That sounds *exactly* like what I had started experimenting with. I'm hoping to have time to explore it more in the not too distant future.

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@vertigo That sounds *exactly* like what I had started experimenting with. I'm hoping to have time to explore it more in the not too distant future.

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@pointfree @vertigo I've never worked as a software developer or test engineer. I do some work on a consulting basis, but my primary job has nothing to do with programming. The more I read about working conditions at various larger software companies, the happier I am that I've avoided pursing that as a career.

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@pointfree @vertigo I've never worked as a software developer or test engineer. I do some work on a consulting basis, but my primary job has nothing to do with programming. The more I read about working conditions at various larger software companies, the happier I am that I've avoided pursing that as a career.

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@vertigo No; it actually tracks very little state (mainly: file being edited, current line, number of lines in the file, and the currently visible lines).

The editor actually rereads the file as I navigate through it, and writes changes as they are made. It's slow and inefficient on larger files, but is tolerable on the shorter files I tend to work with.

I doubt anyone other than me will ever use it for anything significant.

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@vertigo No; it actually tracks very little state (mainly: file being edited, current line, number of lines in the file, and the currently visible lines).

The editor actually rereads the file as I navigate through it, and writes changes as they are made. It's slow and inefficient on larger files, but is tolerable on the shorter files I tend to work with.

I doubt anyone other than me will ever use it for anything significant.

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@vertigo I've been wanting to do that too. Not sure how to make it work within a #forth though. (The closest I remember would be Holon). I started some dabbling towards this a year or so ago, but it's been on the backburner. I wish I had more time to devote to programming...

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@vertigo I've been wanting to do that too. Not sure how to make it work within a #forth though. (The closest I remember would be Holon). I started some dabbling towards this a year or so ago, but it's been on the backburner. I wish I had more time to devote to programming...

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Well the essentials are done in my little text editor. I can open, navigate, and edit a file w/o problems. It'll need some more cleanup & refactoring of a few areas, but it's working just fine. #retro #forth https://mastodon.social/media/eFCnZ4R8 QI2ra6v39_c

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Well the essentials are done in my little text editor. I can open, navigate, and edit a file w/o problems. It'll need some more cleanup & refactoring of a few areas, but it's working just fine. #retro #forth https://mastodon.social/media/eFCnZ4R8 QI2ra6v39_c

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I finished the glossary tool. So I now have a nice little application for searching, editing, and exporting the #retro #forth word documentation.

Now looking into writing a small text editor. I've done block editors plenty of times, but never completed an actual text editor and would like to see if I can't pull this off.

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I finished the glossary tool. So I now have a nice little application for searching, editing, and exporting the #retro #forth word documentation.

Now looking into writing a small text editor. I've done block editors plenty of times, but never completed an actual text editor and would like to see if I can't pull this off.

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I'm thinking of going to bed early. I have work tomorrow, and it's getting cold. (Will be down to 22F/-5.6C when I head to work tomorrow).

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I'm thinking of going to bed early. I have work tomorrow, and it's getting cold. (Will be down to 22F/-5.6C when I head to work tomorrow).

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I think I'll have the new glossary tool for #retro #forth done this weekend. Just need to implement the rest of the editor argument handlers and do some general cleanups.

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I think I'll have the new glossary tool for #retro #forth done this weekend. Just need to implement the rest of the editor argument handlers and do some general cleanups.

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@vertigo I received reports of an issue with an old version of GNU Make that was causing the dependencies to be built in the incorrect order.

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@vertigo I received reports of an issue with an old version of GNU Make that was causing the dependencies to be built in the incorrect order.

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Some progress on the new documentation tool. I have the words in a tab separated value file, and a small program to lookup words in this. Now to work on the documentation editor...
https://mastodon.social/media/950iTh1a VNUb1vLel40

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Some progress on the new documentation tool. I have the words in a tab separated value file, and a small program to lookup words in this. Now to work on the documentation editor...
https://mastodon.social/media/950iTh1a VNUb1vLel40

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screencap showing the documentation tool in use.

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Tonight I begin work on a tool to generate and manage the #retro glossary file. Only a few goals: keep the glossary in a plain text format. Use #retro to implement the tools for searching & updating it.

The current glossary file is ok; but kind of annoying to keep up to date. And having the data in a simple, searchable format will give me more options to expose it via the user interfaces.

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Tonight I begin work on a tool to generate and manage the #retro glossary file. Only a few goals: keep the glossary in a plain text format. Use #retro to implement the tools for searching & updating it.

The current glossary file is ok; but kind of annoying to keep up to date. And having the data in a simple, searchable format will give me more options to expose it via the user interfaces.

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And that's done as of the most recent commit. One dead simple shell script; no more Makefile mess.

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And that's done as of the most recent commit. One dead simple shell script; no more Makefile mess.

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@ckeen /bin/sh, and just avoid anything other than a simple, straightforward set of commands. :)

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@ckeen /bin/sh, and just avoid anything other than a simple, straightforward set of commands. :)

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Also dealing w/issues due to GNU make. I should replace the Makefiles with shell script and be done with the headache.

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Also dealing w/issues due to GNU make. I should replace the Makefiles with shell script and be done with the headache.

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Spent the morning hours before work fixing build issues w/GCC-4.8. #retro #forth

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Spent the morning hours before work fixing build issues w/GCC-4.8. #retro #forth