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Re: Writing to the IDL prompt? [message #50043 is a reply to message #50033]

Mon, 04 September 2006 14:23

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:12:10 -0700, Gianguido Cianci wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to write to the idl prompt so that
> IDL> write2prompt, 'string'
>
> returns a prompt, populated with the string:
> IDL> string
>
> I am aware of idlwave, but was trying to figure out a way to write a
> recursive history search for the idl command line. Something along the
> lines of ctrl-r on bash or a recursive ^ if you will...

IDLWAVE (as you know) does this easily, using the functionality of COMINT
mode, which is used to run IDL: just hit M-r, enter any regular
expression or simple string, and the match will pop onto the command line.

JD

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		Re: Writing to the IDL prompt? By: cgguido on Tue, 05 September 2006 12:25
		Re: Writing to the IDL prompt? By: JD Smith on Mon, 04 September 2006 14:23
		Re: Writing to the IDL prompt? By: Foldy Lajos on Fri, 01 September 2006 10:41
		Re: Writing to the IDL prompt? By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 01 September 2006 10:28
		Re: Writing to the IDL prompt? By: Mike Wallace on Fri, 01 September 2006 08:34

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