[Jprogramming] Announcement: Graphical sentence debugger for J

[Murray Eisenberg]

Now just how do you recommend that one determine what file to load in order to have access to dissect?

In jqt, unfortunately, the dialog one gets from menu selection Edit > Find in Files does not allow the choice of Addons, just Demos, Projects, and User.

And there seems to be no reasonable way to do a search for 'dissect' when one uses the built-in Help menu.

And the jwiki page http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/Dissect doesn't tell how to load it, either.

Of course I can use (under OS X) the Terminal command "mdfind -name dissect.ijs", but why does it have to be so hard to accomplish such a basic and essential thing from within J (without shelling out)??


On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:49:36 -0400, Henry Rich <HenryHRich at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> The /Dissect/ addon lets you probe a J sentence, even one that contains 
> complex tacit forms.  It has a colorful but informative display using 
> gl2 graphics.  It is described at
> 
> www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/Dissect
> 
> I think it could answer a lot of the language questions posed here.

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