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Re: Working with the recall buffer in idlde [message #71550 is a reply to message #71473]

Mon, 28 June 2010 03:32

Juggernaut
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On Jun 24, 11:33 am, Doug Edmundson <do...@ittvis.com> wrote:
> On 6/23/10 8:50 PM, lef...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> After 18 years working with IDL at the command line, I'm giving IDLDE
>> a try. One thing I miss is using the ^ (caret) to search for recent
>> commands. Has anyone found a way to access the recall buffer from the
>> idlde command line? If not, is there a way to access the recall buffer
>> from the IDL programming environment so I could write a small program
>> to implement some of the ^ functionality?
>
> The 8.0 IDLDE has some things you might like, such as control+space for
> command completion (enter "widg", press control+space and a list of all
> matching routines will pop up; this works in the editor too). Pressing
> the tab key will cause the IDLDE to go through the command history and
> recall a matching command. There's also the command history view which
> shows all recent commands and allows you to drag'n'drop to the command
> line or double click them to immediately execute.
>
> Cheers,
> Doug

IDL 7.x does code complete with Control+Space as well...hitting tab
while typing something also searches for previous entries that match
it and will cycle through them.

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		Re: Working with the recall buffer in idlde By: Doug Edmundson on Thu, 24 June 2010 08:33
		Re: Working with the recall buffer in idlde By: David Fanning on Thu, 24 June 2010 08:21
		Re: Working with the recall buffer in idlde By: lefsky@gmail.com on Thu, 24 June 2010 07:46
		Re: Working with the recall buffer in idlde By: jeanh on Thu, 24 June 2010 07:38
		Re: Working with the recall buffer in idlde By: Juggernaut on Mon, 28 June 2010 03:32

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