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Re: history of command prompt [message #54503]

Tue, 19 June 2007 07:07

Vince Hradil
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Registered: December 1999

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On Jun 19, 8:44 am, hradilv <hrad...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 8:33 am, Ingo von Borstel <newsgro...@planetmaker.de>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>> Hi there,
>
>> a question that bothers me for quite some time: is there a way in IDL to
>> have a history that exceeds the 32 entries that I currently have with
>> the default? Something like 500 would be nice :)
>
>> Should it matter: IDL 6.1 running on SuSE linux, using Emacs as an editor.
>
>> Best regards,
>> Ingo
>> --
>> Ingo von Borstel <newsgro...@planetmaker.de>
>> Public Key:http://www.planetmaker.de/ingo.asc
>
>> If you need an urgent reply, replace newsgroups by vgap.
>> From the "HELP" help:
>
> RECALL_COMMANDS
> Set this keyword to display the saved commands in the command input
> buffer. By default, IDL saves the last 20 lines of input in a buffer
> from which they can be recalled for command line editing. Arguments to
> HELP are ignored when RECALL is specified.
> The number of lines saved can be changed by assigning the desired
> number of lines to the IDL_RBUF_SIZE preference. For more information,
> see IDL_RBUF_SIZE.

Also, if you are using emacs with idlwave then you can change the size
of the history by changing the variable 'comint-input-ring-size' - see
"Idlwave Shell Command History File" in Customize->Idlwave Shell
Command Setup.

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		Re: history of command prompt By: Vince Hradil on Tue, 19 June 2007 07:07
		Re: history of command prompt By: aleks.franca@gmail.co on Tue, 19 June 2007 06:50
		Re: history of command prompt By: Vince Hradil on Tue, 19 June 2007 06:44
		Re: history of command prompt By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 19 June 2007 18:36
		Re: history of command prompt By: Ingo von Borstel on Wed, 20 June 2007 00:45
		Re: history of command prompt By: Ingo von Borstel on Wed, 20 June 2007 00:36

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