USING: help parser prettyprint ; ARTICLE: "handbook" "Factor documentation" "Welcome to Factor! Factor documentation is takes the form of an outline, with cross-referencing hyperlinks between topics. You can click the triangle next to a topic heading to expand the topic." $terpri "There is some introductory material you will find useful when starting out:" { $subsection "presentation-intro" } { $subsection "tutorial" } { $subsection "quickref" } "Detailed reference documentation:" { $subsection "syntax" } { $subsection "dataflow" } { $subsection "words" } { $subsection "objects" } { $subsection "math" } { $subsection "collections" } { $subsection "streams" } { $subsection "parser" } { $subsection "prettyprint" } ; ARTICLE: "presentation-intro" "The presentation-based UI" "Factor provides a " { $emphasis "presentation-based" } " user interface. A " { $emphasis "presentation" } " is a graphical representation of a live object. You can see presentations everywhere; help links, words, and code examples are all presentations." $terpri "When you place the mouse over a presentation, it is highlighted with a surrounding border." $terpri "Clicking a presentation with the left mouse button invokes a default command. Clicking the right mouse button displays a menu of applicable commands." ; ARTICLE: "quickref" "Quick reference" "Some words for performing common operations at the listener:" { $list { "You can read the documentation for a word with " { $link help } ":" { $code "\\ reverse help" } } { "You can print the top of the stack with " { $link . } } { "Source files are loaded with " { $link run-file } ":" { $code "\"tetris.factor\" run-file" } } } "If you enter an invalid word name, you will get a \"not a number\" error:" { $example "fdafasfa" "An unhandled error was caught:\n\nParsing :1\nfdafasfa\n ^\n\"Not a number\"\n\n:s :r show stacks at time of error.\n:get ( var -- value ) inspects the error namestack." } "Sometimes, the word " { $emphasis "does" } " exist, but you might need to " { $link POSTPONE: USE: } " its vocabulary first. The " { $link apropos } " word can help locate the correct vocabulary:" { $example "\"