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Re: Readline and/or easy command line history access [message #66254 is a reply to message #66251]

Sun, 26 April 2009 19:56

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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Keflavich wrote:
> Hi IDL folks,
> I've asked a few experts but never received a satisfactory
> answer. Is there any sort of readline support in IDL more advanced
> than a simple command history? I can hit 'up' at the command line to
> retrieve old commands, but this is tedious and sometimes difficult in
> large interactive sessions. On the bash command line and in GNU-
> readline supporting interfaces (e.g. python), it's possible to do
> things like type the first few characters of a command and use 'up' to
> scroll through commands in history that begin with those characters.
>
> On the bash command line, <control-r>, or 'reverse-i-search', is
> approximately equivalent.
>
> The problem is that I use a lot of commands that are rather long -
> e.g. plot commands to subsets of structs - and would prefer not to
> retype them too often. Also, I often use multi-line commands for
> procedures and functions that require a lot of keyword inputs, and
> those are very painful to scroll through.

There was this work by Allan Whiteford:

http://bit.ly/Azxu7

I think it should be possible to make your own IDL command line now in
IDL 6.4+ using Callable IDL. Making something analogous to IPython for
Python would be very useful.

Mike
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www.michaelgalloy.com
Associate Research Scientist
Tech-X Corporation

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		Re: Readline and/or easy command line history access By: Keflavich on Tue, 28 April 2009 07:39
		Re: Readline and/or easy command line history access By: Allan Whiteford on Tue, 28 April 2009 01:53
		Re: Readline and/or easy command line history access By: JDS on Mon, 27 April 2009 15:08
		Re: Readline and/or easy command line history access By: Christopher Thom on Mon, 27 April 2009 13:39
		Re: Readline and/or easy command line history access By: JDS on Mon, 27 April 2009 12:55
		Re: Readline and/or easy command line history access By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 27 April 2009 08:42
		Re: Readline and/or easy command line history access By: Keflavich on Mon, 27 April 2009 08:31
		Re: Readline and/or easy command line history access By: Matt[2] on Mon, 27 April 2009 06:30
		Re: Readline and/or easy command line history access By: Michael Galloy on Sun, 26 April 2009 19:56
		Re: Readline and/or easy command line history access By: Allan Whiteford on Fri, 01 May 2009 03:48
		Re: Readline and/or easy command line history access By: pgrigis on Thu, 30 April 2009 14:35

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