feat(v4.0.0): the editor, redone in FORTH; COLD WARM PAGE VERSION DEFER
- capsule/editor.fth: the block editor as FORTH source, which the node compiles itself. It is a vocabulary, EDITOR, used at the ordinary prompt: n EDIT, then L N B T P E D S H R I WIPE DONE. v3's EDIT, a shell of its own, is not carried over (ruled 2026-10-05); v3's L S and SHOW are kept in FORTH as they were, with COPY. - system.v4: COLD (the system as the loader left it), WARM, PAGE, VERSION, 79-STANDARD (FORTH-79: silent), and DEFER IS DEFER@ as v3. - input.v4: where words are split at blanks a zero byte reads as a blank, so a block never written, or filled a line at a time, loads cleanly. - tests/test_host_quit.c: the editor's source fed to the prompt line by line, every command on empty and full screens, what reaches storage; the system words; deferred words. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| **D-15** | Division by zero in `/` `MOD` `/MOD` `*/` `*/MOD` `M/MOD` (ruled 2026-10-04). | **Guarded: the word reports it and the line ends.** Each of these words tests its divisor before anything else. If it is zero the word prints v3's message, its own name and `: Division by zero`, takes its operands off the stack as v3 does, ends any definition that was open, prints ` ERROR` and returns to the prompt, from however deep; its caller is not returned to. `M/MOD` says so too, where v3 printed ` ERROR` alone. Source in `v4/capsule/forth.v4`; executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-04), including transcripts of the v3 binary. `Q./` keeps D-11 (saturate and flag). `UM/MOD` and `SM/REM` are internal and unguarded: their callers have checked. What a mesh node, with no console, does on a zero divisor comes with the mesh (step 2); §4's definitions, which the mesh-node tests execute, still leave it unspecified. |
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| **D-16** | Stack overflow and underflow; `DEPTH`, `PICK`, `ROLL` (ruled 2026-10-04; revises D-2). | **Guarded: a stack fault.** Each stack counts what it holds. Before every opcode the node checks that the stacks hold what the opcode takes — including a `T` or `S` it only reads — and have room for what it leaves. If not, the opcode does nothing and the node faults exactly as for a bad address (D-14), to that kind's handler: `Stack overflow`, `Stack underflow`, `Return stack overflow`, `Return stack underflow`, then ` ERROR` and the prompt. **Every fault, D-14's included, empties both stacks**: the handler does not return, and what a word stopped part-way has left on the data stack is of no use to its caller. (v3 keeps what the failing word had not taken, and names the word: `DROP: Stack underflow`.) The fault handler is a table of five words, one per kind, each a jump (`(FAULTS)` in `v4/capsule/quit.v4`). Two registers (§7) are all a programme sees of the stacks: `DSTACK-DEPTH` and `RSTACK-DEPTH` read as the depth, and a store to one empties that stack. There is still no stack pointer and no address for a stack cell, so `SP@` and `SP!` stay retired; `.S` waits for number output to reach the capsule. The sizes were unchanged by this ruling, 10 and 9 (D-17 then deepens the host node's): one more value, or one more level of call, is now an error message where it used to be silent corruption. Executed on the golden model (2026-10-04): `tests/test_exec.c` for every opcode at every depth of both stacks, `tests/test_host_quit.c` from the prompt. |
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| **D-17** | Stack sizes on the host node (2026-10-04, following D-16). | **32 values and 32 return entries on the host node; a mesh node keeps the F18's 10 and 9.** Once the stacks are counted (D-16) their size is a parameter of the node, like its memory, and the host node is the one that runs the interpreter and the compiler underneath the user's programme: at 10 and 9 the prompt left a programme about six values, and `/` could be used only four words deep. The mechanism is the same at both sizes — top registers over a ring — and so is every word's definition. v3's stacks are deeper still. In the golden model the sizes are `V4_DATA_RING` and `V4_RET_RING` (`stack.h`), set for the host-node tests in `v4/Makefile`. |
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| **D-18** | Every other error (ruled 2026-10-04: "guard all errors"). | **A word that finds an error raises it, and the line ends there.** The word takes its own arguments off the stack and stores an error code in `NODE-ERROR` (§7). On a node with a prompt that store is a trap, a sixth kind of fault beside D-14's and D-16's: nothing after it executes, the return stack is emptied, and the prompt prints the code's message, ends any definition that was open, prints ` ERROR` and waits for the next line. Unlike the other faults it leaves the data stack as the word left it. The codes: 1 `Negative count` (`CMOVE`, `TYPE`), 2 `Not a number` (`NUMBER`), 3 `Number too long` (`HOLD` into a full buffer), 4 `Not a character` (`HOLD`), 5 `Dictionary full` (`,` `C,` `ALLOT`, any defining word), 6 `Name missing` (a defining word with nothing after it), 7 `Control structure mismatch`, 8 `Control structures too deep`, 9 `Shift count out of range`, 10 `Protected word`, 11 `Division by zero` (`Q./`), 12 `Argument out of range`, 13 `Block out of range`, 14 `No block is being loaded`; −1 means the word printed its own message (`UNKNOWN WORD: 'xxx'`, `xxx: compile-only`). Before this ruling these set the flag and the line ran on to its end. v3 stops at once too; its messages name the word (`LOOP: missing DO`) where v4's name the fault. With the trap not attached `NODE-ERROR` is plain memory and the word returns, which is how the words are tested below the prompt. D-11, D-12 and D-13 said "set `NODE-ERROR`"; on a node with a prompt that now means this. Executed on the golden model (2026-10-04): `tests/test_exec.c`, `tests/test_host_quit.c`. |
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| **D-18** | Every other error (ruled 2026-10-04: "guard all errors"). | **A word that finds an error raises it, and the line ends there.** The word takes its own arguments off the stack and stores an error code in `NODE-ERROR` (§7). On a node with a prompt that store is a trap, a sixth kind of fault beside D-14's and D-16's: nothing after it executes, the return stack is emptied, and the prompt prints the code's message, ends any definition that was open, prints ` ERROR` and waits for the next line. Unlike the other faults it leaves the data stack as the word left it. The codes: 1 `Negative count` (`CMOVE`, `TYPE`), 2 `Not a number` (`NUMBER`), 3 `Number too long` (`HOLD` into a full buffer), 4 `Not a character` (`HOLD`), 5 `Dictionary full` (`,` `C,` `ALLOT`, any defining word), 6 `Name missing` (a defining word with nothing after it), 7 `Control structure mismatch`, 8 `Control structures too deep`, 9 `Shift count out of range`, 10 `Protected word`, 11 `Division by zero` (`Q./`), 12 `Argument out of range`, 13 `Block out of range`, 14 `No block is being loaded`, 15 `Deferred word not set`; −1 means the word printed its own message (`UNKNOWN WORD: 'xxx'`, `xxx: compile-only`). Before this ruling these set the flag and the line ran on to its end. v3 stops at once too; its messages name the word (`LOOP: missing DO`) where v4's name the fault. With the trap not attached `NODE-ERROR` is plain memory and the word returns, which is how the words are tested below the prompt. D-11, D-12 and D-13 said "set `NODE-ERROR`"; on a node with a prompt that now means this. Executed on the golden model (2026-10-04): `tests/test_exec.c`, `tests/test_host_quit.c`. |
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| **D-19** | Block storage on the golden model (2026-10-05). | **Four memory-mapped registers on the host node, until the mesh carries the storage service.** `BLOCK-NUMBER`, `BLOCK-ADDRESS` (the word address of 256 cells), `BLOCK-COMMAND` (a store of 1 reads the block into those cells, 2 writes it from them) and `BLOCK-STATUS` (0 when the command worked, −1 for a block the device has not got or cells not all in memory). A block is 1024 bytes: 256 cells, four bytes to a cell, the first byte lowest, at either cell width. This is the console's arrangement (§7) applied to storage; like it, it is the model's stand-in and not the mesh protocol, which §5.11 still leaves to the device node. |
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**Consequences of D-2 that every definition must respect.** The data stack holds 10 items and the
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| Word | Fate | Notes |
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| `BLOCK` `BUFFER` `UPDATE` `SAVE-BUFFERS` `EMPTY-BUFFERS` `FLUSH` | DEV | FORTH-79 (`FLUSH` is v3's, the same as `SAVE-BUFFERS`). Source in `v4/capsule/blocks.v4`, over the device of D-19. There are **two buffers**, so two blocks can be in memory at once; a buffer goes to the block that asks, turn about, and a block that was `UPDATE`d is written before its buffer is given away. `BLOCK` and `BUFFER` give a **byte address**, as `PAD` and `TIB` are — what `C@`, `CMOVE` and `TYPE` take. A block number below 1, or one the device has not got, is D-18's code 13, `Block out of range` (v3 says ` ERROR` alone). Executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-05), including transcripts of the v3 binary, with the bytes on the device checked after each step. |
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| `LOAD` `THRU` `-->` `BLK` | CC | `LOAD` and `BLK` are FORTH-79; `THRU` and `-->` are v3's. Source in `v4/capsule/blocks.v4`. The text being interpreted is at the address in the variable `(SRC)`, `SPAN` characters long, `>IN` the place in it; `QUERY` makes that the terminal's buffer and `LOAD` a block's, all 1024 characters as one stream. `LOAD` saves `(SRC)`, `SPAN`, `>IN` and `BLK` on the return stack and puts them back, so a block may `LOAD` another and **the rest of the line `LOAD` was on is interpreted afterwards** (v3 drops it). `BLK` is the block being interpreted, 0 at the terminal; v3 has no `BLK`. A buffer can be given to another block between one word of the text and the next, so while a block is loading `WORD` first makes sure it is in a buffer (a hook `LOAD` installs). In a block `\` skips to the next 64-character line. `-->` at the terminal is code 14, `No block is being loaded`. An error while loading ends every `LOAD` under way and the terminal is the input again. Executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-05), three blocks deep on two buffers, including transcripts of the v3 binary. |
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| `LOAD` `THRU` `-->` `BLK` | CC | `LOAD` and `BLK` are FORTH-79; `THRU` and `-->` are v3's. Source in `v4/capsule/blocks.v4`. The text being interpreted is at the address in the variable `(SRC)`, `SPAN` characters long, `>IN` the place in it; `QUERY` makes that the terminal's buffer and `LOAD` a block's, all 1024 characters as one stream. `LOAD` saves `(SRC)`, `SPAN`, `>IN` and `BLK` on the return stack and puts them back, so a block may `LOAD` another and **the rest of the line `LOAD` was on is interpreted afterwards** (v3 drops it). `BLK` is the block being interpreted, 0 at the terminal; v3 has no `BLK`. When words are split at blanks a zero byte reads as a blank, so a block that was never written, or whose lines were put there one at a time, loads cleanly. A buffer can be given to another block between one word of the text and the next, so while a block is loading `WORD` first makes sure it is in a buffer (a hook `LOAD` installs). In a block `\` skips to the next 64-character line. `-->` at the terminal is code 14, `No block is being loaded`. An error while loading ends every `LOAD` under way and the terminal is the input again. Executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-05), three blocks deep on two buffers, including transcripts of the v3 binary. |
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| `LIST` | CAP | As v3: a new line, `Block n`, sixteen lines of 64 characters each after its two-digit number and a colon, and an empty line; a character that is not printable shows as a blank. Leaves `n` in `SCR`. Executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-05) against a transcript of the v3 binary. |
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| `SCR` | CAP | Variable: the block `LIST` showed last. |
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| `BLK-CONFIRM-FORMAT` `RELOCATE-BLOCK` | DEV | Owner-only storage messages. |
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| `QUIT` | CC | FORTH-79; source in `v4/capsule/quit.v4`. Clears the return stack, sets execution mode, returns control to the terminal; no message. It is the prompt: after a new line it prints `ok> `, reads a line with `QUERY`, clears `NODE-ERROR`, runs `INTERPRET`, prints ` ok` — or, if `NODE-ERROR` is set, ends any definition that was open and prints ` ERROR` — and goes round again, for as long as the node runs. The text is v3's. The line is not sent back; the terminal shows what is typed. It empties the return stack first, by a store to `RSTACK-DEPTH` (D-16), so it works from however deep, with the return stack full. The data stack is left alone. A definition open when `QUIT` runs is ended and stays hidden. Executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-04): the node is started at `QUIT`, fed characters and its output read, including 16 sessions recorded from the v3 binary. v3's `QUIT` goes on with the rest of the line and cannot be compiled into a definition. |
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| `ABORT` | CC | FORTH-79; source in `v4/capsule/quit.v4`. As `QUIT`, and it empties the data stack too (a store to `DSTACK-DEPTH`, D-16); the line it stops ends with ` ok`, as v3. Executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-04), from six calls down and from inside two loops, forty times over, including transcripts of the v3 binary. |
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| `ABORT"` `(ABORT")` | CC | Not FORTH-79 (it is FORTH-83's); kept because v3 has it. `ABORT" text"` `( flag -- )`: if the flag is not zero, print the text, start a new line and `ABORT`. Compiled as `."` is, with `(ABORT")` as the run-time word; it also works at the prompt. Executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-04). v3's crashes (SIGSEGV) when a word compiled with it runs, and at the prompt prints the text and carries on with the line. |
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| `COLD` `WARM` | CC | |
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| `COLD` `WARM` | CC | Source in `v4/capsule/system.v4`. `WARM` prints v3's two lines and `ABORT`s: both stacks emptied, the dictionary kept. `COLD` first puts the system back as the loader left it — `DP` and the newest FORTH entry from the two cells `(BOOT)`, one vocabulary, decimal, empty block buffers, `FENCE` at the capsule's end — so everything defined since is gone. Executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-05). |
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| `BYE` `REBOOT` | HERA | |
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| `SAVE-SYSTEM` | HERA | Snapshot becomes a capsule-image request. |
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| `WORDS` `VLIST` | CC | Source in `v4/capsule/system.v4`. The names in the dictionary, the newest first, a blank after each, a new line whenever one has passed column 64; a definition under way is not shown. v3 prints a heading, eight names to a line and a total. Executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-04). |
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| `SEE` | CC | |
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| `PAGE` | DEV | |
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| `79-STANDARD` | CC | |
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| `PAGE` | DEV | As v3 on a terminal: `ESC [2J ESC [H`. Source in `v4/capsule/system.v4`; executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-05). |
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| `79-STANDARD` | CC | FORTH-79: executes if a FORTH-79 system is there. It is, so nothing happens. v3's prints two lines and leaves a flag, which the standard does not have. |
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### 5.16 Line editor
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| `L` `S` `SHOW` `EDIT` | CC |
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| `L` `S` `SHOW` `EDIT` and the `EDITOR` vocabulary | CC | **Redone for v4** (ruled 2026-10-05: v3's `EDIT`, a small shell of its own on stdin, is not the editor). The editor is FORTH source, `v4/capsule/editor.fth`, which the node compiles itself; it is a vocabulary, `EDITOR`, whose words are used at the ordinary prompt. `n EDIT` lists screen `n` and makes `EDITOR` the `CONTEXT` vocabulary. Then: `L` list the screen, `N` `B` the next and the one before, `n T` type a line, `n P text` put the rest of the input line on line `n`, `n E` erase, `n D` delete (the lines below move up; the line is held in `PAD`), `n S` spread (a blank line at `n`), `n H` hold, `n R` replace from `PAD`, `n I` insert `PAD`'s line, `WIPE` blank the screen, `DONE` write what changed and go back to FORTH. Every change is `UPDATE`d. In FORTH itself are v3's three as they were — `L ( n -- )` a line, `S ( baddr u n -- )` a line set from a string, `SHOW` the screen — and `COPY ( from to -- )`. A line outside 0–15 is `ABORT"`ed with `Line out of range`. Executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-05): the source compiled line by line, every command, and what reaches storage. A screen editor, with a cursor, is not written. |
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### 5.17 Defining words and the compiler
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| `ENTROPY@` `ENTROPY!` | MM | Per-call-target heat table (D-6). |
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| `WORD-ENTROPY` `RESET-ENTROPY` `TOP-WORDS` | CC | Reports over the heat registers. |
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| `(-` `INIT` | CC | |
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| `VERSION` | CC | |
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| `VERSION` | CC | Prints `StarForth v4.0.0 F18 32-bit` (or `64-bit`). Source in `v4/capsule/system.v4`. |
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| `SEED` `RANDOM` | CAP | Deterministic PRNG (xorshift) in capsule code, reproducible from the seed. |
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| `WAIT` | CAP | Loop until the `ANTICLOCK` register has advanced `n`. |
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| `HEARTBEAT-TICKS@` | MM | `HEARTBEAT` register. |
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| `DEFER` `IS` `DEFER@` | CC | A deferred word's runtime is `@p push ;` followed by the stored xt. |
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| `DEFER` `IS` `DEFER@` | CC | As v3. `DEFER xxx` makes a data word whose run-time routine fetches the address in its parameter field and goes to it (`pop a! @ … push ;`), so the word it runs returns to `xxx`'s caller and a deferred word is no deeper than a plain one. `' yyy IS xxx` and `DEFER@ xxx` work at the prompt and in a definition. A deferred word with nothing set is D-18's code 15, `Deferred word not set`. Source in `v4/capsule/system.v4`; executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-05), including transcripts of the v3 binary's behaviour. |
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### 5.29 – 5.32 Framebuffer, keyboard, TrueType, scrollback
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