Factor development is best done with one of the supported editors; this allows you to quickly jump to definitions from the Factor environment.

edit ( object -- )

Depending on the editor you are using, you must load one of the child vocabularies of the editors vocabulary, for example editors.emacs:

USE: editors.emacs

If you intend to always use the same editor, it helps to have it load during stage 2 bootstrap. Place the code to load and possibly configure it in the Bootstrap initialization file.

Editor integration vocabularies store an object in a global variable when loaded:

editor-class

If a syntax error was thrown while loading a source file, you can jump to the location of the error in your editor:

:edit ( -- )

If your favourite editor is missing, you can add support for it. A tutorial is available at Creating an editor integration.