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Re: idl/idlde command line autocomplete [message #30911 is a reply to message #30834]

Wed, 22 May 2002 09:00

thompson
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Registered: August 1991

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Carsten:

In the command line (Unix) version of IDL, instead of

idl> he <up-arrow>

Try instead

idl> ^
String To Match: he

It doesn't seem to work in idlde, though. Bummer.

William Thompson

Carsten Lemmen <c.lemmen@fz-juelich.de> writes:

> Having switched from MatLab to IDL I miss alot the command line=20
> autocomplete functionality in IDL command history.

> Example:
> idl> a=3D5
=
> idl> help,a
> idl> print,a
> idl> he <up-arrow>

> typing 'he' on the command line and pressing the up arrow key should
> give me the most recent command starting with 'he', namely 'help,a'
> Is there an option/does anyone have a plugin to obtain this functionality=
> ?

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[Message index]

		idl/idlde command line autocomplete By: Carsten Lemmen on Tue, 21 May 2002 00:49
		Re: idl/idlde command line autocomplete By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 23 May 2002 08:36
		Re: idl/idlde command line autocomplete By: R.Bauer on Wed, 22 May 2002 23:42
		Re: idl/idlde command line autocomplete By: Paul Woodford on Wed, 22 May 2002 20:32
		Re: idl/idlde command line autocomplete By: thompson on Wed, 22 May 2002 13:29
		Re: idl/idlde command line autocomplete By: R.Bauer on Wed, 22 May 2002 10:53
		Re: idl/idlde command line autocomplete By: thompson on Wed, 22 May 2002 09:00

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