Help on standard words
Hi! I'm new to Forth. (Actually I am revisiting it from yeeeeeears ago.) From other REPL languages I am used to some terse documentation on built-in commands I can call upon:
- In
Bashe.g.help echo - In Python e.g.
help(dict)
I am using gForth, but couldn't find something like this. see gives the definition, but this might be VM(?) assembler: Try see dup.
Also I would like to read the stack comment of teh word and a short overview description what the word does. E.g. for over (from the simple forth tutorial):
OVER ( x1 x2 -- x1 x2 x1 ) Copy x1 to top of stack
Is there possibly somewhere a library file I could load in for this?
Posted Jun 25, 2026, 6:57 AM UTC
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