Block Conversion
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:Author: Charles Childers
:Version: 2009.12.21


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Blocker User's Guide
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Overview
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Retro includes a block editor (**red**), and has a more capable editor (**rem**) in the **forthlets** package. Since it's often easier to edit code in a text file (especially if you're sharing it), having a set of words to format text into blocks and blocks back into text is useful.

Text to Blocks
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Enter the following at the root of the **forthlets** directory:

::

   ./retro --with input_file --with apps/blocker.retro

Replace **input_file** with the file you want to convert to blocks.

Blocks to Text
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In a Retro with **blocker.retro** loaded:

::

   totext