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From: bruceb@telesoft.com (Bruce Bergman @nova)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: EDIT/VISIT syseval or address needed
Message-ID: <1158@telesoft.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 20:54:21 GMT
Organization: TeleSoft, San Diego, CA.
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Recently, a couple of folks have asked for the syseval or address for
the builtin EDIT/VISIT routine.  I find myself now interested in that
also, as I've started writing a simple-minded text manager.  It would
be a lot smaller and easier to just shove a string in to be edited than
to do it manually, so if anyone knows how to programatically invoke
EDIT or VISIT, I'd really like to know.

Also, I needed to convert a string into a global name object, and after
a little experimentation, I came upon the following code to do that.
It seems there ought to be an easier way -- does anyone know of an
easier method of doing this type of conversion?

   "string"  -->  'string'   (when a variable exists called string)

   << "'" SWAP + "'" + OBJ-> >>

       (Normally one could just do an OBJ->, but if a variable in
        the current directory exists called 'string', then the double
        quoted version is resolved down to the contents of the variable.
        I don't want that; I want just the global name object.)

Thanks much!

bruce
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