| Readline and/or easy command line history access [message #66255] |
Sun, 26 April 2009 19:09 |
Keflavich
Messages: 19
Registered: May 2008
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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.
So, any tips would be appreciated,
Thanks,
Adam
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