listener-docs: document the Ctrl-Break handler support
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USING: help.markup help.syntax kernel io system prettyprint
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continuations quotations vocabs parser vocabs.loader ;
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USING: continuations help.markup help.syntax io kernel parser
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prettyprint quotations system threads vocabs vocabs.loader ;
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IN: listener
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ARTICLE: "listener-watch" "Watching variables in the listener"
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{ $example "{ 1 2 3 } [\n .\n] each" "1\n2\n3" }
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"The listener will display the current contents of the datastack after every line of input."
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$nl
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"If your code runs too long, you can press C-Break to interrupt it (works only on Windows). To enable this feature, run the following code, or add it to your " { $link ".factor-rc" } ":"
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{ $code
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"USING: listener namespaces ;"
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"t handle-ctrl-break set-global"
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}
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"The listener can watch dynamic variables:"
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{ $subsections "listener-watch" }
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"Nested listeners can be useful for testing code in other dynamic scopes. For example, when doing database maintenance using the " { $vocab-link "db.tuples" } " vocabulary, it can be useful to start a listener with a database connection:"
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"The listener's mechanism for reading multi-line expressions from the input stream can be called from user code:"
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{ $subsections read-quot } ;
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HELP: handle-ctrl-break
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{ $description "If this variable is " { $link t } ", the listener will wrap the user code with calls to " { $link enable-ctrl-break } " and " { $link disable-ctrl-break } " to make it interruptible with C-Break. This includes both compilation and execution phases, so circular vocab import can be interrupted as well as infinite loops."
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"This only works on Windows, and has no effect on other platforms."
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{ $warning "If user code " { $link yield } "s or gets stuck on an asynchronous I/O operation, pressing C-Break will most likely crash the Factor VM." } } ;
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ABOUT: "listener"
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HELP: read-quot
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