That "dump-words" word is enough for my needs most of the time. If I ever need to improve on that (eg. by factoring out the "USE:") , I think I could do that myself by looking at the implementation of "see" in the browser...
Thanks a lot! :) On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:01 PM, John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Joan, > > That looks handy. > > The "scratchpad" vocabulary is persisted in the image, so if you ``save``, > then exit and restart Factor, all the words you had defined will be > available. > > Your technique looks fine, only thing I might add is a newline for spacing > between definitions and maybe sort them alphabetically instead of randomly, > and to fix mutually recursive definitions potentially being ordered wrong, > we DEFER: all words first. > > : dump-words ( vocab path -- ) > utf8 [ > vocab-words [ name>> ] sort-with > [ "IN: scratchpad" print [ "DEFER: " write name>> print ] each > nl ] > [ [ see nl ] each ] bi > ] with-file-writer ; > > To save a vocab's words: > > "scratchpad" "~/dump.factor" dump-words > > To restore your words from a file: > > "~/dump.factor" parse-file > > You'll probably get some "Already using ``...`` vocabulary" warnings, > because each definitions is "complete" and that saving code doesn't > aggregate the using list for all definitions that are being persisted. We > could work some better code to do that if you care. > > Best, > John. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Joan Arnaldich <jarnald...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I sometimes use factor as a shell replacement, and many times I define >> helper functions directly in the listener. Sometimes I would find it >> helpful to be able to "dump" the definitions into a file, eg. as a backup >> in case something crashes or just to bootstrap a regular vocabulary with >> those words as code grows... >> >> Is there a standard / recommended way to do this? I guess I could use >> something like: >> >> "dump.factor" utf8 [ "scratchpad" words [ see ] each ] with-file-writer >> >> ... but before getting into it i'd like to know if it´s already there... >> >> Thanks! >> >> Joan. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Factor-talk mailing list >> Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk > >
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