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Re: Long command line wordwrap [message #58354]

Fri, 25 January 2008 14:02

Abraham campbell
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Registered: January 2008

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David Klassen wrote:
> I use IDL under OSX and Linux; every program I use seems to have a
> host of commandline parameters that need to be set and I need to run
> them several times with minor changes. I use the up-arrow to recall
> the previous command, but if it is longer than one line and wraps,
> when I try to cursor back through it, the cursor stops at the
> beginning of the last line.
>
> In "reality" it is still going back through the command, but I have to
> go forward again to see where it is in the command, then back up to
> make my change, etc. If I have more than one change to make, this can
> get ugly, and difficult.
>
> Is there a way to make the cursor visually go back through the
> recalled line through the the wordwrap? When I'm at the command line
> before running IDL, the cursor will arrow-back over wordwraps, it only
> misbehaves when I'm in IDL.

You should try the Windows command line (for IDL 7.0). It doesn't
suffer from this problem. ;) (wink)

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		Re: Long command line wordwrap By: Abraham campbell on Fri, 25 January 2008 14:02
		Re: Long command line wordwrap By: pgrigis on Fri, 25 January 2008 13:22
		Re: Long command line wordwrap By: Brian Larsen on Fri, 25 January 2008 13:13

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