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  • Editor for Gforth on Android

    From David Meyer@papa@sdf.org to comp.lang.forth on Wed Dec 31 23:23:09 2025
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    Running Gforth on my smartphone under Termux works fine, but I've been
    playing with the Android native package from Play Store.

    Is there a way to install an external editor into the Gforth
    environment, or does everyone use blocked.fb?
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  • From David Meyer@papa@sdf.org to comp.lang.forth on Thu Jan 1 10:55:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.forth

    I should mention that I'm running Android 16, where most apps are
    prevented from accessing others' file subtrees.
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    David Meyer
    Takarazuka, Japan
    papa@sdf.org
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  • From Bernd Paysan@bernd@net2o.de to comp.lang.forth on Sat Jan 3 17:51:08 2026
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    Am Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:55:34 +0900 schrieb David Meyer:

    I should mention that I'm running Android 16, where most apps are
    prevented from accessing others' file subtrees.

    Yes, thanks Google for golden-caging Android. I can only offer the
    following workaround: Create a directory gforth in Download, add /system/ emulated/0/Download/gforth to fpath, and edit the files there.
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  • From David Meyer@papa@sdf.org to comp.lang.forth on Sun Jan 4 09:40:34 2026
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    Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> writes:

    I can only offer the
    following workaround: Create a directory gforth in Download, add /system/ emulated/0/Download/gforth to fpath, and edit the files there.

    Thanks, that should do the trick.

    I have been enjoying learning to use blocked.fb enough to program a
    small application on my phone.
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    David Meyer
    Takarazuka, Japan
    papa@sdf.org
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  • From albert@albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl to comp.lang.forth on Sun Jan 4 12:41:54 2026
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    In article <877btyqkfx.fsf@lucy.meyer21c.net>,
    David Meyer <papa@sdf.org> wrote:
    Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> writes:

    I can only offer the
    following workaround: Create a directory gforth in Download, add /system/
    emulated/0/Download/gforth to fpath, and edit the files there.

    Thanks, that should do the trick.

    I have been enjoying learning to use blocked.fb enough to program a
    small application on my phone.

    I would appreciate even the source of a small gforth application on
    android.
    Is the situation about Openharmony more favourable?

    David Meyer


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