herkforth Crash Course

The bare minimum to give a quick taste of herkforth to people who already know basic forth:

First build herkforth.

Then run herkforth.

Type a word and press space to add it to the current source (after the cursor)

Type \ to delete a word from the source code. (Backspace deletes characters on the input line)

Type a word and press enter to have it executed immediately

Move the cursor: SHIFT-H and SHIFT-N

Go to definition of word typed: SHIFT-D

Go to definition of word under cursor: SHIFT-T

Go back: SHIFT-C

Change colors: [ ] : (execute, compile and define respectively) if you've typed something, that word is inserted in that color, otherwise the word under the cursor is changed to that color.

To create a variable, constant, string or word, type it's name and press &, ', " or : respectively

Save: SHIFT-S (this also resets/recompiles the whole system)

Compile current block: SHIFT-B

Press SHIFT-Q to quit.

That's it for the crash course. Proceed to the full herkforth docs