> Jonah Thomas wrote:

>> Jean-Fran?ois Michaud comcast.net> wrote:

>

>>> By reducing the amount of text in blocks, we are able to fall on
>>> single digits (1-8 lines) which opens the door to immediate execution
>>> on every keystroke.

>

>>> For example:

>

>>> 1- blah text
>>> 2- blah blah text
>>> 3- blah blah blah text
>>> 4- yay text
>>> 5- yay yay text
>>> 6- yay yay yay text
>>> 7- super text
>>> 8- super text

>

>>> 12L read '1', followed by '2', followed by 'L' places 1 on the stack
>>> when '1' is pressed, 2 on the stack when '2' is pressed and executes a
>>> lineswap using the 2 parameters on the stack when 'L' is pressed.

>

>>> 5D would blank out line 5.
>>> To edit text, 8I would allow insertion of text on line 8, etc.
>>> Esc bumps us back from edit to command and once more, back to the
>>> Forth interpreter.

>

>> If you wanted, perhaps you could use 16 lines and read the first digit
>> in hex.
>> You'd have to avoid commands that started A-F when you might put in a
>> line number, but you could arrange that, if you wanted to.

>
> You could stay with positive decimal digits while increasing the number
> of lines to ten. Allowing negative line numbers makes decimal digits
> suffice for 19 lines: -9, -8, -7, ...-1, 0, 1, ..., 7, 8, 9.
>
> Jerry
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